JS: You have to be careful saying this around here, but I would say the two primary objections- from my standpoint as a Calvinist- are 1) that it depends on a true argument from silence, and that 2) it contradicts a number of things that scripture does plainly teach, best summarized in Westminster Confession, Chapter 3. (Please people, let’s not divert into a discussion of 100 Gripes with Calvinism. I’m just answering the man’s question.) I would also say, however, that God is free to do whatever he pleases. For example, Are there other planets with beings for who there is also a plan of salvation? I would say scripture doesn’t answer that question, but not because there couldn’t be “billions and billions” of such worlds or universes, or many other variations on the plan of redemption for such worlds, but it is just a matter of silence in our Bible. I personally find the “salvation after death” and “universal opportunity before death” to be options that do not understand “T” and the “U” of the Gospel, but to have an Arminian approach to the whole matter. That’s fine, but it’s not me.

Noel called, and her first night her roomie asked her to go visit some of her schoolmates at UK. So she goes, and the friends- not the roomie- are like “Let’s go get drunk” and “Where do you want to go to church.” Ahhhh memories of my own college years. I had warned her of exactly this. Later, Noel told her roomie that she would enjoy getting to know her friends, but if they were just going to party, don’t invite her. That’s the daughter I raised, right there. Straightforward. Knows who she is. She is bored with all the orientation antics, and wants school to start. She went to the biggest PCUSA show in downtown Lexington, and didn’t see any young people, but talked with the minister. She has found some downtown churches close by (walking distance.) I am hoping she will eventually try a PCA church (Tate’s Creek Presby) or a Reformed Baptist kind of thing, but I am enjoying her journey. I am praying for her to find a church, but also to find other Christian young people who want to live their lives without WASTING EVEN ONE DAY in getting drunk, etc.

I enjoyed high school football for many years, and Div II basketball, but baseball is a different thing entirely with me. Mystic chords of memory and all that.