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Ronald Ricketts
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| Posted 1/28/2002 11:02 AM (GMT -6) |   | Bruce Ware, in his book, God's Lesser Glory,describes himself as a moderate Calvinist, (page 229,footnote). Now my question is,who & what is a Moderate Calvinist? If the Calvinists are so fearful of any kind of change or shift in tradition, then does not the word moderate indicate some kind of a change or shift in thought.I thought that a rose was a rose and a Calvinist was a Calvinist. Also what are the bounderies or perimeters of being a Calvinist? Thanks for your help. Ronald Ricketts
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Jewgrass
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| Posted 1/28/2002 11:17 AM (GMT -6) | | Moderate is a term used when one wants to disassociate themselves from the elusive and evil "hyper-Calvinism". If you affirm the 5 points of Calvinism without changing their definitions, you're a Calvinist. The only difference in their degree of Calvinism will be based on their lapsarian view (the order of God's eternal decree). Most Calvinists are known as infralapsarians whereas the more extreme view is known as supralapsarianism. Basically, supralapsarians believe in double predestination: God not only elects men to salvation, but actually works in some men's hearts in order to send them to hell. There is a third view (sublapsarianism), but it only affirms 4 points of Calvinism, rejecting Limited Atonement.
There are many people who, scared of being labeled extremists, call themselves "moderate". I am not sure exactly what Bruce Ware believes, but I wouldn't doubt that he is any less of a Calvinist than any Reform theologian out there. Other people, like Norm Geisler, call themselves "moderate" simply because they are trying to dodge being labelled as what they really are: Arminians.
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