Danger, danger......

Sometimes there are those talks that inspire post and this is one of those times. Recently a friend and myself were having a very relaxed discussion on the TULIP debate. It was one of those debates that reminded me of one of the hidden dangers of taken certain theological views to the extreme. This would be the extreme view of becoming a fatalist. In lighter terms it would be the idea that as humans we are like a software programs that will only do exactly as we are pre-programed to do. I feel that this is a non-biblical idea and if this we so, then what would even be the purpose of Evangelism? I may now have the entire debate completely figured out, but I do have the understanding that there are (as I understand it) theological errors in holding to tightly to "man's" understanding of how God works. As Francis Chan illustrates. "Attempting to understand God is like standing in the ocean with a water bottle, filling it up and then saying 'that is what the entire ocean looks like'." The truth is that God is so much bigger than I could even understand him to be.