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jberryhill

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4. Not the Calvinists

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 09:27 AM

Feb 2012

If deciding to believe were an act of free will, then salvation would be reduced to the individual's act of making that decision. That is why Calvinists reject free will in that context in favor of predestination.

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