Calvinist vs. Arminian

These days there is much debate over these two lines of theological ideology. However, I'm just not sure that the two don't share more communication differences than theological differences.

The reality is that God is eternal. He exists outside mans concept of time. This means that God exists in the past, present, and future all at once. He does know which of us is going to heaven and which of us is going to hell before we are born. This gives credit to the calvinist line of theology. However, at the same time He has given us free will. Therefore, He is not choosing what our destination is, rather he allows us to choose on our own, following along with the arminian line of thought.

This is an extraordinary concept. Imagine you and your wife planning to have a baby, and knowing that the child you create will go to Hell, yet creating the child none the less. That's pain and suffering my friends. As much as He desires your love, He knows whether our not you will choose to give your love to Him. It must break His heart.

He does not damn us. We damn ourselves, and yet He gives us life anyway.

Then again, God can intervene if He chooses, can't He? What an amazing mystery it all is!

Whether you are a calvinist or an arminian we all worship the God of Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob. Sometimes our differences aren't so much differences, rather they are different explanations of the same thing. That "thing" is something we can't fully understand in the first place, because we are not God.