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… serious genuine question… (coolest generally, coolest sounding, coolest meaning… take your pick)
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Supralapsarianism. Whenever you don’t understand someone in a theology debate just wrinkle your nose, shrug and say “supralapsarianism” in a dismissive tone.
hahaha classic!
But what if they turn around and say no, actually I’m more on the infralapsarianism (or sublapsarianism) bandwagon?
Those phrases occurred to me when I first saw this post … but then I always have to look them up to remember which is which, and which one I’m more inclined to agree with! Want me to tell you? You could end up with another raging debate over here 
I actively encourage it. It’s cool, because higher-order thinking rocks.
My personal favourite word at the moment is ‘Why?’. Which is lucky as it’s also Anastasia’s
Least favourite word: ‘come’. Context: “He come up to me and said”. It’s CAME!!!
Also, totally, like, so not, like, a fan, of, like, people inserting, like, totally unnecessary ’like-s’, ‘so-s’, and ‘totally-s’ into sentences. It’s like, so totally, inane!
Just had a very (very!) quick look at those words. Does God reason logically? And if so, do his logical reasonings unfold in any order? (It just occured to me that time isn’t needed for order… or is it?)
This just got very deep, very quickly
Yeah, my biggest question is – does God need to think linearly? … Why the assumption He can only think one thought at a time?
Questioning God’s logic??? I wouldn’t want to say He thinks illogically?
(though I know that’s not what you meant)
[Michelle]:But what if they turn around and say no, actually I’m more on the infralapsarianism (or sublapsarianism) bandwagon?
Rarely happens. All the “cool”, “intellectual” PCA people are supralapsarian.
Usually they are struck silent for a few moments trying to find a connection between supralapsarianism and the argument at hand…which gives me time to figure out a more appropriate response. 
[Haysey]:Just had a very (very!) quick look at those words. Does God reason logically? And if so, do his logical reasonings unfold in any order? (It just occured to me that time isn’t needed for order… or is it?)
A lot of people accuse both infras and supras of missing the point. “Before time there is no time! God can’t have planned this and *then* planned this!’ However, they always come back with the statement, “we’re not talking about chronological order but logical order”.
Personally, I think it’s a bit of a waste of time. I’m a Calvinist because it’s in the Bible. I personally don’t think that there is anything in the Bible that warrants me to be either infra or supra…ergo, I am an agnostilapsarian.
[Michelle]: Want me to tell you? You could end up with another raging debate over here
Sure! If there *is* anything in the Bible that necessitates a belief in either, I’m all for it.
ANd….I also dislike the word “come” when it is used like that but even worse is the word “youse”. I have a faint suspicion that it’s a Queensland thing…have you heard of it? It’s roughly synonymous to “y’all”.
I quite like ‘youse’ – its helpful for doing greek, much more flowing than writing you (pl) all the time.
I’m probably an agnostiwhatsit as well, but perhaps even verging on alapsarianism. (in that, I’m unsure there even is an order. Then again, since I’m unwilling to speculate, I’ll go with agnostiwhatsit)
I despise ‘youse’. Though I do understand why people use it.
Anika, I’m pretty much with you. I do tend to lean a little more toward ‘supra’, but I’m not convinced of the necessity of holding any of them. I think the point is- God is sovereign.
If its cool words you’re after, you should ask chesca. She has a list of cool words written down and if you ever read an essay of hers, it’ll be chock full of them. Anyway, she used the word pernicious is her last essay that I read and I quite like that one.
Ew! Pernicious makes me think of Richard Dawkins for some reason – I don’t even know that he uses it!
AWESOME. Although perhaps too commonly used (in the USA) his is what I first thought of — because it gives you an opportunity for great facial expression as you say it. I have tried to get my kids and folks at church to only use it for the Lord and HIs workings (an arduous task, to use another cool word).
i think CRUMPET is the coolest sounding word in the world
AWESOME is AWESOME! I definitely over-use it though…
Hey steph! hahaha CRUMpet, crumPET, crumphet, crumpay, crumphay, croomphay; so many possibilities!
Good times…