Wade Burleson could be the poster child for Baptistic Calvinism. He may represent what the Baptist Calvinist is, a synthesis between "Calvinism" and Arminianism. His title is "Christian" not "Calvinist" which means he has avoided the so-called excessiveness his non-Calvinist peers erroneously call hyper-Calvinism, five point Calvinism.He is getting as close as possible to saying that atonement is limited to the elect only with out offending his peers and local parishioners who believe that the offer of atonement is to everyone in general and not particular.
He uses the term "ambivalent" to describe his belief of the gospel. His gospel should not divide believers so his construct is truly ambivalent. If his gospel divides believers then there must be something wrong with the gospel. The gospel must be constructed so as to unite believers and not divide. Many would call his gospel a "Biblicist" view.
He is ambivalent about the gospel but not so about private power language, women pastors and non-landmark communion. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Perhaps he is ambivalent about those things but why the ambivalence about the gospel?
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I'm calvinist when I read certain passages, but then my faith compels me to go WAY beyond what I've seen many a calivinist slip into, which is complacancy and a "God will get the ones he wants" mentality. If we believe that Christ died for the sin, rose again, and will evntually judge all humanity, how can we do anything BUT tell AND show the world?
BURLESON IS TRYING TO RUN WITH BOTH THE HOUNDS AND THE COONS. HE NEEDS TO COME OUT ONE ONE SIDE.
dr. paul foltz
Jeremy
I think many are academic calvinist only and thus they never had a compulsion to tell anyone about Christ.
I am thoroughly Calvinist from an experiential view, maybe even emotional. Like Isaiah who had seen the Lord, sovereign, high and exalted he was compeled to tell a people a message they would not be inclined to hear nor believe, except for a small remnant.
The telling is not to compel people to believe but to declare the good news that Christ died and rose again.
The Holy Spirit gives the compulsion to tell and the hearers to hear.
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