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A Calvinist In The Queue

Posted on November 20, 2013November 20, 2013 by Norm

Someone forwarded this theological dilemna to me, what do you think.
If you don’t know what a Calvinist is, don’t worry about it.
Here is the link to the original.

A Calvinist in the Queue
A funny way of presenting an old paradox, from Mike Bird’s Evangelical Theology:

A Calvinist arrives at St. Peter’s gates and sees that there are two queues going in. One is marked “predestined,” and the other is marked “free will.” Being the card-carrying Calvinist that he is, he strolls on over to the predestined queue. After several moments an angel asks him, “Why are you in this line?” He replies, “Because I chose it.” The angel looks surprised, “Well, if you ‘chose’ it, then you should be in the free will line.” So our Calvinist, now slightly miffed, obediently wanders over to the free will line. Again, after a few minutes, another angel asks him, “Why are you in this line?” He sullenly replies, “Someone made me come here.”

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