J. Dean
Puritan Board Junior
What was/is their reaction?
I ask this because a woman at the Bible study I attend said her (Arminian) family has treated her as if she had joined a cult-and that's deplorable to hear.
While I realize that not all Arminians would react in such a way, I was wondering if any of you here-particularly later converts to Calvinism-ran into such strong reactions.
The church I happen to attend is Arminian (I'll have to explain that one on another threa), but to be honest I doubt if that many of the people in the church would even know or care about the differences between Calvinism and Arminianism (which is very sad). On the one hand, they don't care, so long as one is a Christian. On the other hand, it makes for some very poor discernment among members, as the church I attend has a bad track record of jumping on the latest fads and trends in Christendom (Beth Moore seems to have gotten a foothold. When I addressed another Sunday School teacher about it, she dismissed out of hand the concerns I had about Moore being unscriptural).
So when you came clean, did you get strong reactions? Heated arguments? Apathy? What happened?
I ask this because a woman at the Bible study I attend said her (Arminian) family has treated her as if she had joined a cult-and that's deplorable to hear.
While I realize that not all Arminians would react in such a way, I was wondering if any of you here-particularly later converts to Calvinism-ran into such strong reactions.
The church I happen to attend is Arminian (I'll have to explain that one on another threa), but to be honest I doubt if that many of the people in the church would even know or care about the differences between Calvinism and Arminianism (which is very sad). On the one hand, they don't care, so long as one is a Christian. On the other hand, it makes for some very poor discernment among members, as the church I attend has a bad track record of jumping on the latest fads and trends in Christendom (Beth Moore seems to have gotten a foothold. When I addressed another Sunday School teacher about it, she dismissed out of hand the concerns I had about Moore being unscriptural).
So when you came clean, did you get strong reactions? Heated arguments? Apathy? What happened?