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Calvinism is not even remotely biblical. It's also an attack upon the good character of our God, as well.
For it makes God responsible for men choosing to remain in their sin. For in Calvinism, God by default chooses to not Elect many to be sinners and damn them for all eternity. So God creates life just for the express purpose to torture them beyond something they had no control over. That's about as crazy as a bag of cats or in believing in a flat Earth. For Calvinism can lead a person into despair into thinking God has not chosen them to be saved, and thus they can just go back to their old life of sin and evil (When God actually desires them to repent). I mean why would God get angry at the wicked every day according to Psalms 7:11 if God is the One who chose them to remain as being wicked by His choice to not Elect them or to not bring them to His salvation yet? The Judgment? In Calvinism: The Judgment is a joke or a farce. In Calvinism: Men are being condemned at the judgment not because they chose to reject the Lord and refuse their sin but because God by default chose them to damnation.
While there are tons of verses that refute Calvinism from Genesis to Revelation, there are three major points in Scripture that I like that demolishes the illogical construct of Calvinism.
#1. 2 Thessalonians 2:10.
#2. Luke 13:3.
#3. Jonah 3:1-10.
#1. 2 Thess. 2:10 says,
#2. Luk. 13:3 says,
#3. Jon. 3:1-10 says,
But many folks like the idea of God being Calvinistic for their own personal reasons. So they will choose to believe in Calvinism despite what these parts of Scripture plainly say. They will seek to change these portions of Scripture to fit their preferred belief in Calvinism, or ignore they will simply ignore these verses altogether. For I have never really received a rational explanation (with the use of God's Word) on these three points in Scripture. Not once. It never happened.
For it makes God responsible for men choosing to remain in their sin. For in Calvinism, God by default chooses to not Elect many to be sinners and damn them for all eternity. So God creates life just for the express purpose to torture them beyond something they had no control over. That's about as crazy as a bag of cats or in believing in a flat Earth. For Calvinism can lead a person into despair into thinking God has not chosen them to be saved, and thus they can just go back to their old life of sin and evil (When God actually desires them to repent). I mean why would God get angry at the wicked every day according to Psalms 7:11 if God is the One who chose them to remain as being wicked by His choice to not Elect them or to not bring them to His salvation yet? The Judgment? In Calvinism: The Judgment is a joke or a farce. In Calvinism: Men are being condemned at the judgment not because they chose to reject the Lord and refuse their sin but because God by default chose them to damnation.
While there are tons of verses that refute Calvinism from Genesis to Revelation, there are three major points in Scripture that I like that demolishes the illogical construct of Calvinism.
#1. 2 Thessalonians 2:10.
#2. Luke 13:3.
#3. Jonah 3:1-10.
#1. 2 Thess. 2:10 says,
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” (2 Thessalonians 2:10).
According to the verse above what was the reason why those who perish are perishing?
Does it say that those who perish are perishing because they were not Elected?
No. It says that the reason why those perish are perishing is because... THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH. THEY received not the love of the truth. It was their choice (if you believe 2 Thessalonians 2:10). Another thing this verse says is that... they MIGHT be saved. Those who are perishing MIGHT be saved. So there is a possibility that they could have been saved. There is no MIGHT be saved in Calvinism. So either I believe in John Calvin and his doctrines or I trust and believe my Bible. I choose to believe the Holy Bible instead.
According to the verse above what was the reason why those who perish are perishing?
Does it say that those who perish are perishing because they were not Elected?
No. It says that the reason why those perish are perishing is because... THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH. THEY received not the love of the truth. It was their choice (if you believe 2 Thessalonians 2:10). Another thing this verse says is that... they MIGHT be saved. Those who are perishing MIGHT be saved. So there is a possibility that they could have been saved. There is no MIGHT be saved in Calvinism. So either I believe in John Calvin and his doctrines or I trust and believe my Bible. I choose to believe the Holy Bible instead.
#2. Luk. 13:3 says,
“I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:3).
In this verse, Jesus is basically telling us to repent or perish. In Calvinism, the Elect are never in danger of ever really perishing and the Non-Elect cannot repent. Even if the Calvinism says that their old life was fit for them to perish, they have to face the fact that they never were in ever real danger if they end up being Elect or chosen by God in the end. Jesus does not seem to share this view. Jesus is giving us a.... Do this action (repent) or face this bad fate (perish) kind of situation instead. So either Calvinism is correct, or Jesus is correct. I choose to believe what Jesus says and not Calvinism.
In this verse, Jesus is basically telling us to repent or perish. In Calvinism, the Elect are never in danger of ever really perishing and the Non-Elect cannot repent. Even if the Calvinism says that their old life was fit for them to perish, they have to face the fact that they never were in ever real danger if they end up being Elect or chosen by God in the end. Jesus does not seem to share this view. Jesus is giving us a.... Do this action (repent) or face this bad fate (perish) kind of situation instead. So either Calvinism is correct, or Jesus is correct. I choose to believe what Jesus says and not Calvinism.
#3. Jon. 3:1-10 says,
1 “And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.”
Nineveh was said to be overthrown in 40 days by Jonah (See: Jonah 3:4).
But did this happen? No. What changed the situation?
The Ninevites repented.
The Ninevites chose to do two very important things (as a part of their repentance):
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.”
Nineveh was said to be overthrown in 40 days by Jonah (See: Jonah 3:4).
But did this happen? No. What changed the situation?
The Ninevites repented.
The Ninevites chose to do two very important things (as a part of their repentance):
#1. They cried mightily unto God
(i.e. they sought forgiveness with God over their sin) (See: Jonah 3:8), and
#2. They turned from their evil way
(i.e. they stopped committing the sins that they sought forgiveness with the Lord) (See: Jonah 3:8).
Jonah 3:10 says that when God had seen the Ninevites turn away from their evil ways, God had repented (turned back) from the evil (His wrath, judgment) that He was going to originally bring upon them. So what was the reason the Ninevites did not face God's wrath? Was it because God elected them to salvation and it was nothing in that they did? Is that what we read in this story? No. The reason why the Ninevites did not face God's Wrath is because THEY decided to repent. We see in the story God turned back from the evil (His wrath against sin) upon the Ninevites because they chose to forsake their evil ways (their sin). No Unconditional Election or Calvinism in this chapter. In fact, this part of the story of Jonah actually demolishes Calvinism big time. So again, I have to ask myself. Should I believe in Calvinism or should I just read and believe Jonah chapter 3? I choose again to believe my Bible plainly and not Calvinism.(i.e. they sought forgiveness with God over their sin) (See: Jonah 3:8), and
#2. They turned from their evil way
(i.e. they stopped committing the sins that they sought forgiveness with the Lord) (See: Jonah 3:8).
But many folks like the idea of God being Calvinistic for their own personal reasons. So they will choose to believe in Calvinism despite what these parts of Scripture plainly say. They will seek to change these portions of Scripture to fit their preferred belief in Calvinism, or ignore they will simply ignore these verses altogether. For I have never really received a rational explanation (with the use of God's Word) on these three points in Scripture. Not once. It never happened.
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