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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 Limited Atonement?Last night, our BSF secretary Craig asked me did I believe in "Limited Atonement". Gulp. But I realise it's doctrine connected with the Great Debate between Calvinism on the one hand, and Arminianism on the other. Two ends of a wide spectrum; election vs. free-will choice maybe? The most sensible teaching I've heard on this came from Chuck Missler (66/40 man), where he argues that neither extreme is totally correct, nor is either totally wrong - and suggested that the truth is a balance somewhere between those two extremes. Chuck got me thinking and led to my stock answer (which Katrina says is just a cop-out!) on any questions related to this; that we can't give answers because we (from our limited time-bound perspective) can't ask the right question. How would our understanding of all this differ if, like God, we could step outside of time and not only look backwards but forwards too, with knowledge of events? Omniscient and fore-knowing, in other words. I think we'd ask the question somewhat differently. Anyway, I'm happy to cop-out and ask my mate Stan (who shares Craig's love of discussing doctrine) to give me the benefit of his understanding. And BTW, I'm inviting Craig to join us on the blog - someone who loves discussing doctrine is a real find! Craig, you'll enjoy this - this is why blogs are so good. Click on here for a link to Chuck Missler's series on The Sovereignty of Man, all about free will and predestination! And I checked with Mr Google to see what he had to say on Limited Atonement - much, it turns out. There's over 52,000 entries - the first of which links to some sermons by Spurgeon and others. Stan, you may be able to give us some good links to useful sites on these doctrinal issues. # posted by geoff @ 1:34 pm 0 comments
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