John Calvin was wrong...to say that The Lord chooses people to be damned is blasphemy (Wesley)
You mean we should listen to THIS guy?
From John Wesley, towards the END of his life:
āIn one of my last [letters] I was saying that I do not feel the wrath of God abiding on me; nor can I believe it does. And yet (this is the mystery),
I do not love God. I never did. Therefore I never believed, in the Christian sense of the word. Therefore I am only an honest heathenā¦
And yet, to be so employed of God! And so hedged in that I can neither get forward nor backward! Surely there was never such an instance before, from the beginning of the world! If I ever have had that faith, it would not be so strange.
But I never had any other evidence of the eternal or invisible world than I have now; and that is none at all, unless such as faintly shines from reasonās glimmering ray.
I have no direct witness (I do not say, that I am a child of God, but) of anything invisible or eternal.ā