Let us beware lest our words and thoughts go beyond what the Word of God tells us…We must leave to God His own knowledge,…and conceive Him as He makes Himself known to us, without attempting to discover anything about His nature apart from His Word. (Quoted in The Story of Christianity Vol. 2, by Justo [...]
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My Biggest Problem with Calvin/Calvinism Roger E. Olson
Professor of Theology
George W. Truett Theological Seminary
Baylor University
Above all I want to make clear that I admire and respect my Calvinist friends and colleagues. We disagree strongly about some points of theology, but I hold them in high esteem for their commitment to the authority of God’s Word and [...]
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Hays responded to my latest post and made several assertions that deserve investigation. He also engaged in quite a bit of rhetorical bluster which, again, served only to divert attention away from the issue at hand. I will be careful to address everything that pertains to the exegesis of the text in question, and point out [...]
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What is Free Will?
It may seem strange to some that there even is a debate as to what constitutes free will. The average person believes that he has free will. Whenever he is confronted with a choice he believes that he can either choose this way or that, and that either choice is a real [...]
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Consitent Calvinism FAQ (Satire)
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The title of this post represents a search phrase that someone typed into a certain search engine which led that person to my site. I assume that “decreed” in this instance has reference to causation as in Calvinistic determinism. John Calvin was adamant that God did not permit the fall, but rather caused it (he recognized [...]
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The following excerpt is from John Wesley’s Predestination Calmly Considered:
48. Your objection, proposed in another form, is this: “It is not so much for the glory of God, to save man as a free agent, I put into a capacity of either concurring with, or resisting, his grace; as to save him in the way [...]
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Consider the words of Christ to the church at Thyatria [sic.] concerning the prominent woman referred to as ‘Jezebel’ and His servants, who were practicing immorality and pagan customs, doubtless in a religious context after the manner of the cults:
“I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a [...]
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Kyle Breaks it down into two “five point” segments to make it easy to understand even if you’re a Calvinist Seriously, it is a very good presentation of the disadvantages of Calvinist theology compared with the advantages of Arminian theology.
What Calvinists Don’t Want You To Know
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The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 29:29)
Calvinists often appeal to Deut. 29:29 when caught in a theological dilemma. Ask a Calvinist how God can exhaustively determine all [...]
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