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After discussion my Calvinism and a good friend's open theism, I showed him Romans 9, and he exclaimed "Dan, if you're right about that, then I don't think this is a God I think I want to know!"
that's the existential crisis that everyone who comes across this doctrine goes through. At least the guy is honest. In our natural state this is not the God we want to know. Its the Holy Spirit that has to change our heart to see the beauty and the loveliness of God.
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