Chosen for Life by Sam Storm

Some time ago, I had finish reading Chosen for Life by Sam Storm. What a wonderful and very educational book to read. It is about the differences between Calvinist's view and Arminian's view. The more I read it and the more I understand Calvinist's view which does point to Biblical way of understand His Election. The more I read Arminian's view, and this had me scratching my head and couldn't understand where they get their view of understand His election which doesn't seem to be Biblical at all.

Chosen for Life is a great book written by Sam Storm who is a man who used to be Arminian and so hard headed until he understood Calvinist belief. This book is very educational book to read a long with the Bible to double check. So far, I do agree with Calvinist belief and not Arminian belief which had left me scratching my head. The most important is that we all need to have the correct understand of His Election Biblically and not just Calvinist or Arminian way.

I had written a post about this book back in Nov. Here is my blog: Calvinistic Concept of Election vs Arminian Concept of Election.

Then I read the Appendix C which is about The Divine Decrees on page 213 to 219, I found that is a very hard challenging Appendix to read. This had me thinking and want to learn more about this.

If you are going to read this book, I would encourage you all to have your Bible, color pens, and highlighter with you, and if you got Palm Pilot or whatever with electronic Bible with more than just one Bible translation. You will be very amazing how Calvinist's view does line up Biblical about His Election. I would encourage you all to read each verses that he had quote in this book.

By the way, I am not a hyper-Calvinist because I do believe in evangelism.

I am hungry to learn more about Calvinist and TULIP too.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Calvinistic Concept of Election vs Arminian Concept of Election

I had been reading Chosen for Life by Sam Storms. I had been scratching my head about that crazy Arminian Concept of Election which doesn't make any sense at all to me. I do totally agree with Calvinistic Concept of Election which does line up with the Biblical standard. (I just started reading Chosen for Life this week.)

I know that I have a lot to learn all about 5 points of Calvinist's view and that crazy Arminiam's 5 points of view too. I am planning to learn more about Calvinist and would love to get this TULIP in DVD (I don't have a DVD player and hope it will work on my computer. (Can't find that on Amazon.)) and TULIP in Study Guide. Both are from Desiring God. Also I would love to get other wonderful materials about Calvinist too.

It would be cool to have this in a small group study with wonderful church family like Tuesday Morning Theology Breakfast or other time.

I know there are a lot of wonderful post online for more information about both Calvinist view and that no-nonsense view of Arminian.

The most important of all is not the label of Calvinist or Arminian, but we all need to have the correct Biblical view of His Election.

At this point, I can't afford to buy any books, but I am currently reading whatever books that I have on hand or had borrow. I had updated my wish list (BoldLion's Wish List) through Amazon. I do wish that Westminster does have a wish list that I can share with other.

By the way, I just want to share this, and I thought this is odd. My spell check on this blog doesn't recognize Arminian. It did recognize Calvinist. I did spell Arminian correctly according to the spelling that I got from Chosen for Life.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion