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Divorce is generally a traumatic experience and a stressful process --- for everyone involved.
When a marriage ends, spouses and children (if any) frequently confront a series of uncomfortable events such as changed living arrangements, different family schedules, other new environments, and decisions about property and money. Maintaining one's calm and poise during this process can be difficult.
There are rarely so-called "winners" in divorce. The goal, as I tell my clients, is to be a "successful survivor" of this process. Do not approach divorce with an attitude of "winning". The better and more healthy attitude is to approach divorce hoping and expecting to successfully "survive" it. Rarely do divorcing spouses end up with everything they want.
" Measure twice, cut once." That's what my parents taught me many years ago. It is good wisdom.
The point is, do not make important decisions about your divorce without thinking them through carefully and, of course, consulting with your attorney. Every decision in a divorce has consequences.
Remember: you and your spouse are the ones getting divorced; not your children. Psychological studies show that the more parents fight during a divorce, the damaging the process is to the children. Think of the children and their psychological well-being during your divorce.
Beware of "agitators", "rubberneckers", and "gossips" during your divorce. Though they may be well-meaning, do not believe everything other people tell you about their divorce experiences. Every divorce is unique and different. No two divorces are the same in facts and results.
Keep the "big picture" in mind. Do not stay held down by the past. Prepare for the future. Goodluck.
HYPOCRISY AND CALVINISM BY STEVE FINNELL
ReplyDeleteJohn Calvin's view of salvation was that God preordained a select few for salvation and that all others would be eternally damned as punishment for their sins.
The often used Scripture to support that claim is John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him ap at the last.(NKJV)
The problem is that Jesus said in verse John 6:47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.(NKJV)
Jesus did not say, he who the Father has preordained to believe in Me has everlasting life. God does not impute faith into a select few so they may believe and be saved.
Romans 10:13 For "whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."(NKJV)
It is "whoever" calls on the Lord, it is not whoever has been preordained to be saved will be saved.
Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in in Him whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
Why would a Calvinist need a preacher if they are all preordained for salvation, would they not have faith in Jesus from birth? Why would Calvinists' have missionaries to spread the gospel, would not all the preordained be drawn to Calvinists' church buildings? Would it not be hypocritical to preach the gospel to the world if only certain men have been preordained for salvation?
Faith is not preordained, faith comes from hearing the gospel.
Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.(NKJV)
Is it not hypocritical for a Calvinist' preacher to preach to his congregation to abstain from sin? If all Calvinists' have been preordained for salvation and can never be lost, then they should be able to live a sinful lifestyle with no loss of salvation. Why worry about sin?
Contrary to John Calvin's view, God's grace is available to all who obey the gospel plan of salvation. Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,(NKJV)
To assert that you have been saved because God loves you and you have been preordained for salvation, but your neighbor will be lost and punished externally because of his sin is the height of arrogance, it give hubris a bad name.
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