I heard a very good story about the theological positions. There is an underground church in china. When a brother shared the five points for several times during his sermons, another brother stood up and challenged him. He said: why should we know about Calvinism before we even know Jesus? He made a good point. Christians are not to follow Calvin or Arminian, but to follow Jesus Christ. I believe Calvin and Arminius regard themselves as Jesus followers instead of being Calvinist or Arminian respectively.
As a Chinese Christian, I don’t have any denominational background because the reasons you know. However, the godly traditions pushed us to pursue spiritual disciplines. It ended up with the great revival around China. Nowadays, more and more arbitrary so-called Calvinists emerged. They don’t give you a …show more content…
One of brothers regards himself as a Wesleyan Arminian, while the other brother called himself a Molinist. The first interview was more of a philosophical discussion about its application and derived meaning. My Arminian brother started with the derived meaning of predestination. If God has designed all the steps we are going to tred on, we don’t have any choices. It also means we don’t have any moral responsibilities. Furthermore, we don’t have to preach, to teach, and to pray. The Wesleyans emphasized prayer and fasting, which means they believe prayers do shake God’s hands. His denominational tradition does not have much philosophical studies, but applies the spiritual disciplines in their lives My friend singled out the examples like Abraham prayed for the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Jesus prayed to God the Father.However, those examples seem like contradict with the total sovereignty of God. So we arrived at the conclusion that God and the Bible is beyond our logic. Any attempts to rigidly put the balanced God into a man-made theological box were predestined to fail, including Calvinism and
As a Chinese Christian, I don’t have any denominational background because the reasons you know. However, the godly traditions pushed us to pursue spiritual disciplines. It ended up with the great revival around China. Nowadays, more and more arbitrary so-called Calvinists emerged. They don’t give you a …show more content…
One of brothers regards himself as a Wesleyan Arminian, while the other brother called himself a Molinist. The first interview was more of a philosophical discussion about its application and derived meaning. My Arminian brother started with the derived meaning of predestination. If God has designed all the steps we are going to tred on, we don’t have any choices. It also means we don’t have any moral responsibilities. Furthermore, we don’t have to preach, to teach, and to pray. The Wesleyans emphasized prayer and fasting, which means they believe prayers do shake God’s hands. His denominational tradition does not have much philosophical studies, but applies the spiritual disciplines in their lives My friend singled out the examples like Abraham prayed for the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Jesus prayed to God the Father.However, those examples seem like contradict with the total sovereignty of God. So we arrived at the conclusion that God and the Bible is beyond our logic. Any attempts to rigidly put the balanced God into a man-made theological box were predestined to fail, including Calvinism and