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we would greatly appreciate it. Now, what I want to talk about today is with regard to the concept

and idea of what is often referred to as being arbitrary. Many of you've heard me refer to

being arbitrary in reference to Calvinism, is that on Calvinism, God's will seems to be arbitrary.

Now, words have meanings, and the reason I use arbitrary is because it has a meaning.

It has a definition, and you can't change definitions to suit your fancy.

In other words, we see this in the political world a lot, somebody doesn't

like the label liberal, they don't like to be called a liberal, so they change the name to

progressive or something like that. Or they say, well, I'm not a liberal, even though liberal has been

defined in the exact same way that the word progressive has virtually, just change the label, change the word to make it more palatable, to make it more

acceptable.

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