GRGR (2) "great bright hand"

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Thu Jun 10 12:03:04 CDT 1999


In a message dated 6/10/99 10:12:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mcmullenm at vcss.k12.ca.us writes:

mcmullenm:
<< 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?  >>

I supposed it would be.  I said, you'll note, they are "not" statistically 
determined.

<<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.>>

I guess it needed to have been noted that all this is from the human pov, not 
HIS, as it looks from down below.  There is no "after the fact" for HIM.



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