Reformed Arminian, dearest friend, I do not think this site exists to comfort us, but rather to stretch us and to rethink thoughts that haven’t been thought in a little while.

Andrew’s parable is marvelous.  I suggest you reread it.  Your missionary zeal is admirable, and it may be that you would be right in preventing some of us from preaching some of these thoughts from the pulpit.  But this is not the pulpit.  If certain thoughts are off limits, then we cage ourselves in, and we risk intellectual dishonesty.  I think many of us here believe that we can safely ask dangerous, heretical questions, because we trust that God’s Spirit will guide us.  If Jesus is in fact God, have a little faith that the evidence will point that way.  But don’t deny the evidence for the sake of a creed.

Also, while missionary zeal is admirable, I hope and trust and pray that the zeal is for the Kingdom, and not some narrowly-defined set of propositional doctrines.  While Augustine and Piper both have some wonderful things to teach us, I hope you take much of what they say with a grain of salt.  I shall leave it at that.

Cheers,

-Daniel-