[UA] What Do You Believe?

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Andrew
> Sent: Friday, 15 June 2001 10:50 PM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re[2]: [UA] What Do You Believe?
>
>
> Friday, June 15, 2001, 1:48:07 PM, Nick wrote:
>
> NW> One of the more Puritanical sects that founded our contry had such
> NW> beliefs... I think it was the Calvinists, but could be completely
> NW> wrong. But money was seen as a reward and sign you were going to
> NW> heaven.
>
> The calvinists were 'odd'.  They believed in predestination, and that
> only a certain number of people would be saved and thus, due to
> predestination, were technically already saved.  It didn't matter what
> you did, because either you were already going to be saved, or you
> were already going to be damned.

Not so...you were already saved or damned because God knows what it is you
are going to do, being funkily atemporal.

> Of course, if you were going to be
> saved, then you were going to be holy, so doing holy acts made it more
> likely that you were one of the people predestined to be saved.

The deal, without the migrane is this:

God knows, before your conception, if you are going to have an apron at the
apocalypse barbeque.  You only find out later.  Your chances are better if
you are a good person.


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