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Should Extra-Biblical Knowledge Inform our Interpretation of Scripture?

Friday, November 30th, 2007

1:30 am

In an exciting sermon, John Wesley espoused the following impassioned complaint against the usual Calvinistic interpretation of certain passages of Scripture:
But you say you will prove it [unconditional election] by scripture. Hold! What will you prove by Scripture? That God is worse than the devil? It cannot be. Whatever that Scripture proves, it never proved […]