{"id":61304,"date":"2016-07-01T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=61304"},"modified":"2016-06-30T09:11:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:11:57","slug":"messing-with-calvinists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/messing-with-calvinists\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Frivolity: Messing with Calvinists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heaven.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61699\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61699\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heaven.jpg\" alt=\"Heaven\" width=\"850\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heaven.jpg 850w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heaven-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heaven-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heaven-600x397.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Calvinist arrives at St. Peter&#8217;s gates and sees that there are two lines. One is marked &#8220;predestined&#8221; and the other is marked &#8220;Free will&#8221;. Being a card-carrying Calvinist that he is, he strolls on over to the predestined queue.<\/p>\n<p>After several minutes, an angel asks him, &#8220;Why are you in this line?&#8221;\u00a0He replies, &#8220;Because I chose it&#8221;. \u00a0The angel looked surprised,\u00a0&#8220;Well, if you &#8216;chose&#8217; it, shouldn&#8217;t you be in the &#8216;free will&#8217; line?&#8221;\u00a0Slightly miffed, the Calvinist obediently wanders over to the free will line.<\/p>\n<p>Again, after a few minutes, another angel asks him, &#8220;Why are you in this line?&#8221;. He sullenly replied, &#8220;Someone made me come here&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Calvinist arrives at St. Peter&#8217;s gates and sees that there are two lines. One is marked &#8220;predestined&#8221; and the other is marked &#8220;Free will&#8221;. Being a card-carrying Calvinist that he is, he strolls on over to the predestined queue. After several minutes, an angel asks him, &#8220;Why are you in this line?&#8221;\u00a0He replies, &#8220;Because I chose it&#8221;. \u00a0The angel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1228,191,1049,193],"class_list":["post-61304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-calvinism","tag-free-will","tag-heaven","tag-predestination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61700,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions\/61700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}