Doug Chaplin pointed to some quiz to determine one’s C-factor. I came out as basically half a Calvinist.
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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I scored 50%. Not much of a Calvinist, I say.
So you have some Calvinism in your blood but not on theology. :-)
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.
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).
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.
According to the quiz, I am 69% Calvinist. Unlike you, my brother Nick, if theology had been incorporated I would have been higher! ;-)
Jason: Ooh, sorry to hear that. ;-)
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
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.
@jeff – He doesn’t need to. Piper has already taken care of that. ;)
Haha. I got the exact same score as you, Nick! Great minds think alike…?
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.
@Kevin Sam: and you’re reading the Institutes!
75% Pretty scary. I apparently have latent Calvinizing tendencies. :)
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. ;-)
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.
Brian: I’m still trying to figure out that ‘monergistic synergist’ thing. But I agree about the questions.
oh how funny – I’m 47% Calvinist but ‘like to live life in a lighter way in order to enjoy it’. I completely agree.
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.
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.
I scored 50% too. Two years ago it would have been around 90-95 %. I’m so proud of myself. I’m making progress:)
Celucien: Indeed you are!
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.
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. ;)
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. ;-)
yep – all bibliobloggers are fairly calvinistic in that area… ;-)
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
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.
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
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. ;-)
aaahh very sorry about that. I know you’re not a fundamentalist Christian.
Jeff
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.
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. :-|