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Alana L: 2f (foundation of the world)

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  This series is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist    (And starting now, I'm planning on posting every other week, for the most part.) Point #2 Still: F.  Alana noted how Calvinists say that they were chosen before the foundation of the world (that their names - the names of "the elect" - were written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world).   This error is based on two things: 1. It's based on a mistranslation of  Revelation 13:8 , usually from the Calvinist's favorite translation, the ESV:   "and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain." "Written before the foundation of the world."  Sounds very Calvinist-predestinationy, right? But let’s read it in the King James:  ”And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not wr...

"More Noble Berean"

(Happy New Year!  FYI: In general, I'll be posting every other week in 2025.) I'm interrupting the  Alana L series to share a YouTube channel I just found - More Noble Berean - that you might like.  I've only watched a few videos (so I don't know all her beliefs, which means there may be things I disagree with her about), but this woman - Patti - warns against a lot of the same things I do (or that I would warn against, if my blog wasn't specifically about Calvinism), such as: Calvinism , "The 5 points of Calvinism Reformed Theology" Catholicism   New Age Holy Spirit Fire Encounters Channeling: Is it the Holy Spirit? But the video that really caught my attention was this one:  Kat Von D Got Baptized It made me smile because I wrote a post with a similar heart:  Calling out High-and-Mighty, Holier-than-Thou Judges, in defense of Kat Von D I really appreciated that Patti was standing up for Kat (a brand-new believer), giving her the benefit of the doubt....