Posted by: Nick Norelli | July 14, 2009

I’m Half a Calvinist

Doug Chaplin pointed to some quiz to determine one’s C-factor.  I came out as basically half a Calvinist.

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Too bad there weren’t any questions about theology.  I suspect my percentage would have gone down if there were. Go see where you come in.

B”H

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  1. I scored 50%. Not much of a Calvinist, I say.

    So you have some Calvinism in your blood but not on theology. :-)

    By: tc robinson on July 14, 2009
    at 8:11 pm

  2. TC: The questions were pretty stupid if you ask me. Asking about expensive food and clothes isn’t going to give anyone a good idea of where someone falls theologically, but then again I’m sure the quiz was never meant to be taken seriously.

    By: Nick Norelli on July 14, 2009
    at 8:32 pm

  3. I am 86% Calvinist, although I am theologically too (well, assuming you’re referring to the five points… I don’t wholly agree with Calvin by any means).

    By: Jake on July 14, 2009
    at 8:46 pm

  4. Jake: Well, at least the five points. There’s much more to Calvinism than that, and I happen to disagree with a great deal of it.

    By: Nick Norelli on July 14, 2009
    at 9:12 pm

  5. According to the quiz, I am 69% Calvinist. Unlike you, my brother Nick, if theology had been incorporated I would have been higher! ;-)

    By: Jason on July 14, 2009
    at 9:20 pm

  6. Jason: Ooh, sorry to hear that. ;-)

    By: Nick Norelli on July 14, 2009
    at 9:40 pm

  7. I am a 100% not taking these stupid stereotype promoting quizzes. Why doesn’t the quiz maker just tell people that Calvinists are intolerant, only think in black and white etc.
    Jeff

    By: Scripture Zealot on July 14, 2009
    at 10:56 pm

  8. I think he does say that. He calls them digital, and says they don’t like tolerance. I have no idea what that has to do with Calvinism. They should have substituted fundamentalism for Calvinism, and left the questions the same. And I say this as a dyed-in-wool Arminian.

    By: philosophickle on July 14, 2009
    at 11:04 pm

  9. @jeff – He doesn’t need to. Piper has already taken care of that. ;)

    By: Michael on July 14, 2009
    at 11:06 pm

  10. [...] (HT: RDTWOT) [...]

    By: The C-factor « Aberration blog on July 14, 2009
    at 11:09 pm

  11. Haha. I got the exact same score as you, Nick! Great minds think alike…?

    By: Mike S. on July 14, 2009
    at 11:12 pm

  12. I can`t believe I scored so high: 83%. I didn`t know I was such a Calvinist. I think I`m starting to change my mind about myself.

    By: Kevin Sam on July 15, 2009
    at 12:07 am

  13. @Kevin Sam: and you’re reading the Institutes!

    By: Jake on July 15, 2009
    at 12:37 am

  14. 75% Pretty scary. I apparently have latent Calvinizing tendencies. :)

    By: Kevin Jackson on July 15, 2009
    at 3:23 am

  15. Jeff: I thought he did tell people that. ;-)

    philosophickle: You’ve said it better than I could have.

    Michael: Ha! If only I could bring myself to listen to or read Piper then I might know what you’re talking about. ;-)

    Mike: If you scored the same as me then yours must be a great mind indeed!

    Kevin: See what happens when you start celebrating the annoversary of Calvin’s birth and reading the Institutes!

    Jake: Exactly!

    Kevin: Don’t they say that we make fun of folks for because we see in them everything that we don’t like about ourselves. ;-)

    By: Nick Norelli on July 15, 2009
    at 9:11 am

  16. I got 47% – makes some sense given I often call myself a monergistic synergist!

    I agree though much of the test was full of stereotypes – just because one may not fancy rich food and rich clothes does not mean one is calvinistic – or if you work hard maybe that just means, well, you work hard.

    By: brianfulthorp on July 15, 2009
    at 10:19 am

  17. Brian: I’m still trying to figure out that ‘monergistic synergist’ thing. But I agree about the questions.

    By: Nick Norelli on July 15, 2009
    at 10:57 am

  18. oh how funny – I’m 47% Calvinist but ‘like to live life in a lighter way in order to enjoy it’. I completely agree.

    By: steph on July 15, 2009
    at 1:23 pm

  19. monergist (our salvation is enacted by God alone, period) – synergist (our salvation is enacted by God and lived out in faith by man) – most calvinists eschew synergism of any sort calling it either palagianism or semi-palagianism.

    I see a both and situation and Phil 2:12-13 can lend support to this idea.

    Hence the monergistic synergist.

    By: brianfulthorp on July 15, 2009
    at 2:37 pm

  20. Steph: If only I knew how Calvinists lived life I could be sure if I liked to live it ‘lighter.’

    Brian: I gotcha. I’d change “enacted” to “initiated” to describe what I believe because I believe that our response to God’s call through faith and repentance plays a part.

    By: Nick Norelli on July 15, 2009
    at 4:16 pm

  21. I scored 50% too. Two years ago it would have been around 90-95 %. I’m so proud of myself. I’m making progress:)

    By: Celucien Joseph on July 15, 2009
    at 6:51 pm

  22. Since we can’t convert them to Calvinism by our arguments, Let them take a Quiz…

    Not really.  But a quiz has been floating around the Christian blogosphere called the C-Factor, Are you a Calvinist? convincing a bunch of non-Calvinists that they’re more Calvinist than they would have us believe:
    At 50%:
    1. Peter M
    2.
    At 53%:
    1…

    By: New Leaven on July 15, 2009
    at 7:03 pm

  23. Celucien: Indeed you are!

    By: Nick Norelli on July 15, 2009
    at 7:23 pm

  24. I think ‘lighter’ just means to live life lightly and not take it or yourself too seriously. I think life is pretty seriously black and white for calvinists.

    By: steph on July 15, 2009
    at 7:59 pm

  25. I think I’ve always took life on the more serious side.

    Since we can’t convert them to Calvinism by our arguments, Let them take a Quiz…

    For non-Calvinist, this quiz may have more persuasive power to convert one to Calvinism than one might think. ;)

    By: Kevin Sam on July 15, 2009
    at 9:56 pm

  26. Steph: Well we all know how seriously I take myself, so that can’t possibly apply to me. ;-)

    Kevin: It can’t be any less persuasive than the standard Calvinists one encounters online. ;-)

    By: Nick Norelli on July 15, 2009
    at 10:07 pm

  27. yep – all bibliobloggers are fairly calvinistic in that area… ;-)

    By: steph on July 16, 2009
    at 12:29 pm

  28. Steph: “I think life is pretty seriously black and white for calvinists.”

    Don’t you wish you had it all figured out like we do?
    Jeff

    By: Scripture Zealot on July 16, 2009
    at 6:09 pm

  29. Jeff: not at all – how dull. Mystery, not knowing and freedom to explore possibilities is far more interesting. Mind you – the more I learn, the more I know I don’t know but that’s ultimately exciting anyway.

    By: steph on July 16, 2009
    at 8:10 pm

  30. [...] Nick Norelli [...]

    By: I am a calvinist « Jack Of All Trades on July 17, 2009
    at 7:24 am

  31. I was being sarcastic. Most Calvinists don’t (or shouldn’t) see things in black and white and certainly don’t have everything figured out.
    Jeff

    By: Scripture Zealot on July 17, 2009
    at 12:35 pm

  32. and I wasn’t? I love it when people take me literally. Just like I love it when people who don’t know me accuse me of being a fundamentalist Christian. ;-)

    By: steph on July 17, 2009
    at 12:41 pm

  33. aaahh very sorry about that. I know you’re not a fundamentalist Christian.
    Jeff

    By: Scripture Zealot on July 18, 2009
    at 12:35 pm

  34. I know I’m a little late to the party. But I’m with you on how silly that quiz was. I had written a post for Calvin’s 500th attacking TULIP and got 47% with 100% on belief.

    On the other hand I got 0% on sobriety and I have 3 drinks a month maybe less.

    By: CD-Host on July 22, 2009
    at 2:27 pm

  35. CD-Host: Yeah, the test was lame. But it was something to do for a couple of minutes so I guess it wasn’t all bad. :-|

    By: Nick Norelli on July 22, 2009
    at 11:31 pm


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