GRGR (2) "great bright hand"

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy!

--- calbert at pop.tiac.net wrote:
(tiniest of possible piciune (sp?) sniplets)

> "prob(sucking seagull into ram jet) etc. etc."

They ain't no ramjets on them rockets, is there?  Where is Ordnance
Man??  Let's try to get these things rahht.

(larger sniplet)

> > A similar tension exists in Calvinism between
> predestination and free 
> > will--between the free will allowed the individual
> and the predestined 
> > aggregate actions of mankind.  Each man may or may
> not be elect or damned.  
> > Provided no certainty either way, he experiences
> the freedom to act--to 
> > choose a moral life, to work, hopefully to
> prosper--or not.  Nevertheless a 
> > fixed (God-known) number of souls always come up
> tails.
> 
> But judgement (outcome) is directed at the
> individual, not the 
> aggregate, except in those cases where G-d became
> sufficiently pissed 
> to smote an entire peoples.

Isn't P's crochet the concept of Preterition?  That the Elect and the
Damned are not statistically determined but fore-ordained on an
individual basis?  It seems that a good Calvinist would say that there
is "very little room for hope", indeed, for anyone who is not a
Calvinist Christian.  It seems to humble heretical me that this runs
counter to the whole concept of a Final Judgement.  It would seem one's
love of Christ is not so much to be weighed and rewarded, but that
one's label (tatooed on your forearm at the Inception of time) is to be
read out at the last....

In a brown funk,
Mark
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