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Great post Bladerunner, and I too agree with much of the Calvinist doctrine except the free will part. I also find it hard to accept that some people were born to go straight to hell and God knows it ahead of time. Why bring them into the world? I have see some good Calvinist VS Open Theist debates. Maybe we could post a good one here and comment as we watch?

John Calvin was born yesterday 510 years ago in Noyon France.
Seldom has any figure been so universally revered and reviled at the same time.
Mostly he is reviled ( by believers as well) by those who’ve never read him.
Calvin did not make up the word “predestination”.
He found it in Holy Scripture.
It is almost impossible to believe that he wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion in his mid-twenties.
He sustained profundity, intensity and variety on every page at a level unimaginable.
There were over a thousand years between Augustine and Calvin.
It’s been over half a thousand years since Calvin.
Whence cometh such another? It is hard to imagine, yet we await.