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发帖数: 3781 | 1 Dave Hunt
Almost daily I found this subject was claiming a wider interest and greater
importance than I had ever imagined. It seemed obvious that there was great
need for further research and writing to deal with this important issue.
As it became known that I intended to write such a book, a number of pastors
cautioned me to refrain from publicly expressing myself on this subject bec
ause out of ignorance of its true teachings I had already misrepresented it.
A typical response from the Calvinist friends to whom I sent an early manus
cript for comment went like this: "The caricatures you present and the straw
men you construct demonstrate to me that you have absolutely no understandi
ng of the Reformed position and until you do I would counsel that you refrai
n from putting anything in print."
Letters began to pour into our ministry, The Berean Call, from around the wo
rld, many from pastors, insisting that I was unqualified to address Calvinis
m and urging me to seal my lips and drop my pen regarding this topic. It was
suggested that I would lose many friends and alienate myself from leading e
vangelicals, most of whom were said to be convinced Calvinists. Furthermore,
who would publish such a book since the major publishers had brought out ma
ny books on the other side?
What moved me most was the concern earnestly expressed by close friends that
a book from me on this issue could cause division - the last thing I wanted
. "We can just hear it now," several friends told me: "Here comes Dave Hunt
again; this time he's attacking Calvinists!" That concern weighed heavily up
on me.
One must be willing to accept wise counsel. But the advice to remain silent,
though given by so many out of genuine concern seemed, after much prayer an
d soul-searching on my part, to be ill advised. Spurgeon called the debate o
ver God's sovereignty and man's free will "a controversy which ... I believe
to have been really healthy and which has done us all a vast amount of good
. . . .' My heart's desire is that this book will be only to God's eternal g
lory and to the blessing of His people. | R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 2 Calvinists are really like Calvinists.
calvinists here always say to me that I am not qualified to rebuke
calivinism
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【在 R*o 的大作中提到】
: Dave Hunt
: Almost daily I found this subject was claiming a wider interest and greater
: importance than I had ever imagined. It seemed obvious that there was great
: need for further research and writing to deal with this important issue.
: As it became known that I intended to write such a book, a number of pastors
: cautioned me to refrain from publicly expressing myself on this subject bec
: ause out of ignorance of its true teachings I had already misrepresented it.
: A typical response from the Calvinist friends to whom I sent an early manus
: cript for comment went like this: "The caricatures you present and the straw
: men you construct demonstrate to me that you have absolutely no understandi
| R*o
发帖数: 3781 | | R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 4 May God be with me
greater
great
pastors
bec
it.
manus
straw
understandi
【在 R*o 的大作中提到】
: Dave Hunt
: Almost daily I found this subject was claiming a wider interest and greater
: importance than I had ever imagined. It seemed obvious that there was great
: need for further research and writing to deal with this important issue.
: As it became known that I intended to write such a book, a number of pastors
: cautioned me to refrain from publicly expressing myself on this subject bec
: ause out of ignorance of its true teachings I had already misrepresented it.
: A typical response from the Calvinist friends to whom I sent an early manus
: cript for comment went like this: "The caricatures you present and the straw
: men you construct demonstrate to me that you have absolutely no understandi
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