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Now, about TULIP being an interconnected logical construct, it's like a theological LEGO set where each piece relies on the others to build the grand Calvinistic castle. And OSAS, well, it's the tower that stands tall, saying, "Once Saved, Always Saved, like it or not!"
Yup, that's my "take" on OSAS. And also those of my wife's family, members of the (very conservative Reformed) Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
But hey, you're not fully agreeing with the "interpretation" dance, and you've got your own moves – submitting Scriptures to others, ignoring some, and embracing the ones that do the polka with TULIP. It's like a Lutheran dance-off, with tradition and Scripture leading the way.
No.
I disagree that the traditional view is "submitting one 'set' of Scriptures to another. It's accepting BOTH 'sets' equally. Lutherans deal with this by seeing some Scriptures here as Law and some as Gospel and thus the issue is application, not ignoring some and embracing others in order to "fit" with the embraced theology.
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