Who Said That?

"The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom you and I acknowledge and adore, the Creator and benevolent governor of the world; but a demon of malignant spirit.  It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin."

You know the drill.  Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 08:58AM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is taken from Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Adams on April 11, 1823

Comments

[M Burke]

Reads like Thomas Jefferson or... Martin Luther King Jr.

[Anthony]

Dave Hunt

[pb]

John Adams?

[Michael William Smith]

Arminius?

["lee n. field"]

A guess: John Wesley.

[DB]

Charles Finney had (similarly lovely) words for Calvin and Calvinism.

[Michael]

Either Dave Hunt or one of the Caner brothers

[David]

Ergun Caner

[Steve M]

Jimmy Swaggart

[Brian Davilla]

Dave Hunt

[JN]

Dave Hunt

[John Yeazel]

I'm guessing Finney too. He liked to use the word benevolent if I remember correctly. He did not have many good things to say about the Westminster Divines and Jonathan Edwards either. I cannot determine if he was an ego maniac and nut case or just someone who was meticulously consistent in his wrong headed theological beliefs.

[C T Hall]

I don't have a guess for who it is, but he (or she) is quite sloppy in his research. Even basic research will reveal that the '5 points of Calvinism' are not Calvin's 5 points. Not that Calvin didn't agree with them but that it is anachronistic to argue they come from Calvin in the form we know them.

[Frank]

Michael Jones, Ph.D

[dsanger]

Charles Grandison Finney.

[Mark]

Sounds like good ol' TJ to me (Thomas Jefferson)

[JR]

Ditto CT Hall's comment, and ditto Finney

[JR]

not finney...darn.

[rfwhite]

swaggart. hagee. hunt.

[Lloyd I. Cadle]

Chuck Smith.