Churches and ministries need to be on guard for Calvinistic creep into their teaching. It changes a loving God into an arbitrary tyrant, empties the cross of its saving power, and deflates the gospel as good news for all.
If you don’t like the truth of Calvinism, why do you need saving power? What do you need to be saved from?
Nobody with earthly ears likes the truth of Calvinism, but it is the truth and must presented in truth.
The fact is if God didn’t choose some, NO ONE would be saved. Jesus says, go find his sheep, the ones God has chosen and given ears to hear. Ears are a gift from God. Earthly ears can’t hear the Good News.
The message of the whole Bible is repent and turn to God. Everyone likes the second part but you have understand the first part to fully understand Gods mercy and love.
So if God in eternity chooses some for reprobation - condemning them for eternity in lostness and making it impossible for them to be saved by the power of the Word and the Holy Spirit - how then can the parable of the Sower, and Jesus’ own explanation of it, be incorrect?
If calvinism was fully true then the Holy Spirit would not have had it called Calvinism. It would have simply been called “The Way” or simply Christianity. The doctrines of Calvin have been teased from the pages of the Bible, almost set apart from The Word Logos made flesh.
If Calvinism was the way we were to interpret the bible plan of Salvation...then it would not have been allowed to be called “Calvinism”...it would have been called ‘The true way of Christ”.
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