tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074928633612716591.post8248176036743501853..comments2020-07-06T23:21:39.762-04:00Comments on What did I just step in?: "I" - Irresistible Grace: Summary and ThoughtsJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10145998577359331579noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074928633612716591.post-55745528364265072802012-01-17T21:23:26.953-05:002012-01-17T21:23:26.953-05:00It is always curious to me how some seem to box Go...It is always curious to me how some seem to box God into a formula. And I guess it wouldn't be terribly significant if it was individuals, but when a whole faith system produces formulas, I get nervous.<br /><br />Election readily stands out to those outside the system as a Calvinist doctrine, and though I have put in hours of reading myself trying to understand it (always fizzling into irrationality for me) I hadn't ever come across, at least to my memory, the "order of regeneration" put that plainly. If it indeed is the prescribed order, I have an additional problem with Calvinism.<br /><br />But even so, I'm not sure stating the opposite is entirely accurate. I rather think, as we grow in our relationship with God, the three - repentance, faith, regeneration - continuously feed one another.<br /><br />I have often thought man tries to make God's business linear, when I'm not sure He is so constrained.Vengilettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912673399248580410noreply@blogger.com