Caroline
Puritan Board Sophomore
And please don't say, "God predestined it." Tell us the means that God used in his sovereign plan in which he predestined your Calvinism.
Were you born into a Calvy family? Get disillusioned with Arminian theology? Calvin and Warfield appeared to you in a dream? (If so, you really should stop eating burritos and reading theology so late at night.)
Follow-up question: For those of you that, like myself, became Reformed as adults, what's the dumbest thing you ever asked the people in a Reformed church?
My story (very, very brief version): I became Calvinist without really knowing it because it seemed self-evident in Scripture, even though I did not know anyone else who held those views (which caused me to doubt my sanity from time to time). I had a brief brush with Calvinism at a church that I attended for a few weeks at one point, but not enough to really grasp it. I was relieved to find like-minded individuals when I joined a support group for former Charismatics and former Pentecostals who had become Presbyterian, and they were instrumental in introducing me to Reformed theology. They suggested that I try an Orthodox Presbyterian church, which I did, after nearly running down a large tree on the church lawn with my car because noticed the sign at the last moment as I was driving by and I was so excited that I actually found one of those churches that I swerved inexplicably toward the building. Fortunately, I avoided the tree and thus was able to introduce myself on the phone instead of via an accident on the front lawn.
Dumbest thing I ever asked: "Who is Westminster? And why do we keep talking about what he confessed?"
Were you born into a Calvy family? Get disillusioned with Arminian theology? Calvin and Warfield appeared to you in a dream? (If so, you really should stop eating burritos and reading theology so late at night.)
Follow-up question: For those of you that, like myself, became Reformed as adults, what's the dumbest thing you ever asked the people in a Reformed church?
My story (very, very brief version): I became Calvinist without really knowing it because it seemed self-evident in Scripture, even though I did not know anyone else who held those views (which caused me to doubt my sanity from time to time). I had a brief brush with Calvinism at a church that I attended for a few weeks at one point, but not enough to really grasp it. I was relieved to find like-minded individuals when I joined a support group for former Charismatics and former Pentecostals who had become Presbyterian, and they were instrumental in introducing me to Reformed theology. They suggested that I try an Orthodox Presbyterian church, which I did, after nearly running down a large tree on the church lawn with my car because noticed the sign at the last moment as I was driving by and I was so excited that I actually found one of those churches that I swerved inexplicably toward the building. Fortunately, I avoided the tree and thus was able to introduce myself on the phone instead of via an accident on the front lawn.
Dumbest thing I ever asked: "Who is Westminster? And why do we keep talking about what he confessed?"