This, from "Funny Pictures, Sayings and Cartoons" highlights the "funny" way our minds work, or not.

Quote Originally Posted by Nikos View Post
How do you confuse a Calvinist? Take him to a buffet and tell him to get whatever he wants.

Why do Calvinists do so poorly on College tests? They can't handle multiple choice questions.

What do you call a Presbyterian drinking Mountain Dew? A Hyper-Calvinist

Did you hear about the Calvinist who rode in an elevator all day? He felt he had no right to choose a floor so he just went wherever it took him

It is "funny" because some people have the idea that Calvinists don't believe in choice. Why? Because that's what they've been told, or probably, that's what they were first told.

But is that true? No, of course not, because we know that the Westminster Confession of Faith, the predominant confessional statement of Reformed theology in the English-speaking world, has a whole chapter called "Of Free Will." the first section of which says, in its entirety:

WCF 9.1 God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good, or evil.

Now here comes the strange thing. A lot of people who say that Calvinists don't believe in choice have been told time and time again that they do, and shown written proof (see above), yet they still don't believe it. And these are people who are born again. Yet these same people believe that when they tell a sinner to repent, even though Paul wrote that "a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised", they believe that the natural man, the sinner, can and does understand them. And why? Probably, again, because that's what they were first taught.

It seems to me that we have difficulty changing our minds. Take C19 for example. Everyone was told how "bad" it was and they refuse to change that view even though everyone should now know that the survival rate is 99+%. When Pres. Trump showed that one could recover quickly the world went into a tail spin.

It's interesting isn't it that once we have something in our mind it can be difficult to shake, even when we're shown definitive proof that we've got it wrong.

It's a good source for jokes and the occasional laugh though.