BTW, in dealing with hell, H. Berkoff suggests that "for God's sake" let's pray that hell is purgative and purifying. Bottom line, if Berkouwer was weak on Scripture, the doctrine of God, and the church, H. Berkoff continued that trend down the road. It used to be that people who departed from Calvinism left through the door marked, "Arminianism." In the last century, courtesy of some of the leading "Calvinist" scholars (e.g., Berkouwer, Barth, H. Berkhof), we have another door by which we may depart. Now it makes more sense why so many of my "Reformed" seminary profs back 30 years ago (e.g., Jack Rogers, James Daane, etc.) seemed so non-Calvinistic.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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