DW,

I did read much on this group and listen to many of their infomercials on
the website.  I would not claim they were Calvinists or Covenental.  Yes,
there are some things they say that sound like it but they have utterly
confused their Soteriology in their presentation of the "Gospel" and have
taken a more fatalistic viewpoint, which most calvinists would deem as
heretical (I know not one calvinist who deems fatalism as anything but
heretical).

Derick

> Does anyone know if the Westboro church is Calvinistic as stated in this
> part of an article I read today?  With all the free flying posts (I guess
> it
> was supposed to be that way) on this subject, I am more than curious.
> DW
>
>
>
> Westboro Baptist Church members picket military funerals carrying signs
> saying "Thank God for Maimed Soldiers" and "Fags die, God laughs" and
> other
> such nuttiness. The church is extreme predestinarian, believing that God
> has
> predestinated a few to be saved and the rest to be damned (which is
> exactly
> what John Calvin taught, by the way). They are not preaching the gospel
> that
> Jesus Christ preached: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
> begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
> everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
> world; but that the world through him might be saved" (John 3:16). They
> are
> not warning sinners to turn from their sin and believe in Christ and be
> saved, because they don't believe the non-elect can do this. They are
> simply
> pronouncing judgment. It is their duty, they believe, to let it be known
> that God hates you and that you're going to hell ("Kansas Minister
> Preaches
> Doom," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 3).
>
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