Well . . . had some time to kill in a waiting room today, so I read Debating

Calvinism. It’s been sitting on my shelf since it was published, flipped

through briefly, but I hadn’t found the time to read it yet. In retrospect,

not sure I should have.

Don’t get me wrong–Dr. White’s presentations and responses were thoroughly

orthodox, and sometimes I could enjoy the replies to Hunt. But by and

large, I didn’t learn anything. Which is fine–I’d like to think that I’ve

got the basics of Calvinism down by now.

So what about Dave Hunt? Well, never thought much of him–especially after

the original radio interview Dr. White did with him, and hearing some of his

teaching leading up to that monumental waste of paper and ink called, What

Love Is This (insert that lahaye quote here–and what a disappointing

century this will be . . . . ), and then seeing the debate with Dr. Pipa.

I’d have thought that following that disastrous book, and only moderately

better debate, I couldn’t think less of Hunt.

WOW! WAS I WRONG!

Ugh. Horrible. Terrible. Horrific.

I will say this . . . I think one of his quotations from Augustine I found

the kernel of the application for my sermon this week. But that’s not what

he wanted me to get out of it, I was supposed to read it and say, “Whoa, I

don’t want anything to do with a system that is at all related to his

terrible thinker.” Oh well . . .