Posted in , , ,  Being like this  15 July 2011 by Frank Turk
Can I admit something here? This is my favorite topic in the
whole catechism.  Well, "favorite" is a weird word for this, I
admit it.  Besides the Gospel and Jesus and the Church and so
on, this is my favorite topic in the catechism to talk about
with unbelievers because it's a place where they have no place
to hide, and frankly neither do we.  Look: this is the topic
that proves out a lot of things about the way things work in
this world. The Gospel doesn't prove out how things work -- the
Gospel is sort of in spite of how things work. You can't expect
or explain the Gospel except with a real God who is personal and
intentional and loving.  But this topic here -- this is the
question which every non-Christian and every Christian comes
back to almost daily: why does it have to be this way?  Yeah, us
Calvinists: we have to frame it as a systematic question with
all the categories squared up like a set of box-cut corners. But
anyone you meet has th