Archived can someone explain calvinism to me? and how it is different from original christianity? (religion)
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Archived can someone explain calvinism to me? and how it is different from original christianity? (religion)
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[–] zxcvzxcv 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Think of it in terms of dimensions. If humans are 3-dimensional, then God is 4th-dimensional, giving Him access to options that are not available to lesser beings. In other words, due to our limited natures, humans are unable to reach up to understand God, but that does not limit God from reaching down to make himself understandable to us. In this sense, from the human's limited perspective, humans really do have freewill, but from God's greater perspective, humans really are predetermined.
In this sense, both Calvinism and Arminianism views are correct, but it depends on whether you are trying to understand God from God's 4th dimensional perspective of Himself [Calvinism], or if you are trying to understand God from your own limited 3rd-dimensional perspective of God [Arminianism].
In a nutshell, Calvinism says that God is all-powerful (because He really is all-powerful), but Arminianism says that humans have freewill based upon the limiting rules of our reality (because we do have freewill in this reality).
This topic only becomes complicated when people fail to make a distinction between 3rd-dimensional thinking and 4th-dimensional thinking.