Fwd: Re: GRGR (2) "great bright hand"

Evan Abla EAbla at nazarene.org
Thu Jun 10 10:03:20 CDT 1999


s~Z wrote:

> MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > For the Calvinist, the Elect and Damned are not statistically
> > determined; that's true.
>
> 'Statistically determined'....isn't this putting the cart before the
> horse? Although God chooses as He pleases, a statistical analysis of
> those choices would be made after the fact. Elect statisticians will
> have to do this work in Heaven. Checking to see if there are any
> significant statistical trends to the election process. Comparing the
> number of elect across gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexual
> orientation, quality/quantity of P-List posts, etc.


Or would it be more related to quantum physics, more specifically Schrodinger's Cat.  Before that judgement day one is *both* Eect and Damned.  Talk about scary!  
evan

Evan M. Abla
eabla at nazarene.org

"Silence is a word which is not a word, 
and breath an object which is not an
object."
                              --G. Bataille




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