<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745152864388858187.post6699486437804678482..comments</id><updated>2012-01-07T18:27:02.525-08:00</updated><category term='Book of the Month'/><category term='salvation'/><category term='virtue'/><category term='Quotes'/><category term='children'/><category term='Mercy'/><category term='fighter verses'/><category term='Knowing God'/><category term='Podcast'/><category term='The Puritans'/><category term='worship'/><category term='Mission Statement'/><category term='law and gospel'/><category term='growth'/><category term='Update'/><category term='theology'/><category term='Grief and Sorrow'/><category term='links'/><category term='Announcements'/><title type='text'>Comments on Sovereign Joy Blog: The Straw Man</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.sovereignjoycf.org/feeds/6699486437804678482/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5745152864388858187/6699486437804678482/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.sovereignjoycf.org/2009/12/straw-man.html'/><author><name>Pastor Patrick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00010859369442302145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745152864388858187.post-9094431594183481394</id><published>2010-01-10T20:15:17.938-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T20:15:17.938-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How would one agrue agaisnt Calvanism with a &amp;quot...</title><content type='html'>How would one agrue agaisnt Calvanism with a &amp;quot;Slipery Slope arugement&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually I&amp;#39;ve been thinking and discussing some of the Calvanism arguements, and my ignorance is going to show, but I&amp;#39;ve been hit by the &amp;quot;but we aren&amp;#39;t all robots&amp;quot; arguement, and from my understanding Calvanism is not a veiw in which God pretertermines everything we do, but more a view that God has predestined His elect.  Is that correct?  I in no way beleive that God causes people to sin, yet sin in itself cannot hamper Gods plans, in fact our God is such that he can and deos use sin to further His kingdom, sort of a wierd rendition of Romans 8:28.  I think I like the Job picture of God where whatever happens in the world is not necesarily God&amp;#39;s idea, but it does have to cross his desk.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;....Reaction</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5745152864388858187/6699486437804678482/comments/default/9094431594183481394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5745152864388858187/6699486437804678482/comments/default/9094431594183481394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.sovereignjoycf.org/2009/12/straw-man.html?showComment=1263183317938#c9094431594183481394' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.sovereignjoycf.org/2009/12/straw-man.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745152864388858187.post-6699486437804678482' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5745152864388858187/posts/default/6699486437804678482' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-146594100'/></entry></feed>
