The Anti-Calvinist Rant

I am just adding a short note here to let you know that I have found a couple instances where it seems that the Calvinist authors of an article that I linked to altered the article sometime after I linked to it.  So if an article doesn't seem to fit what I said about it, it may be because they saw what I said and changed the article.  (Yet, if I poke around on the internet, I can find the original article in a different place.  But I really should start keeping copies of the ones I link to.)

Here is another comment I left on the Soteriology 101 post "Frustrated by the state of the world?" .   I had left a comment saying that Calvinists twist Scripture.    Roland (Calvinist) then asks: "Can you give me an example where Calvinist twist Scripture?" My reply: Calvinists won’t agree with me, of course, and they will cite various other unrelated Scriptures to support their twisted views, but for starters … 1.  John 3:16 : “For God so loved the world …”         CALVINIST TWIST: “Oh, yeah, but ‘the world’ doesn’t mean all people.    It means all the elect (or ‘the cosmos,’ as my Calvinist pastor said).”    Or “Yeah, God loves the world, but He has two different kinds of love: a saving one for the elect and a ‘gives you food and sunshine’ one for the non-elect.”    Or “God saves those He loves, so if He doesn’t save the non-elect, it means He didn’t love them.    So He doesn’t mean ‘all people’...

Wanna see brilliant Calvinist manipulation in action? Watch this 8-minute clip of John MacArthur trying to answer questions about Calvinist evangelism.   (You can read my post first or watch the clip first.   Up to you.   Or watch the clip first and think “Wow, he’s brilliant” … and then read my post … and then watch the clip again and think “Wow, how manipulative and unbiblical!   I can’t believe I didn’t see it before.”)   He packs an awful lot of Calvinist manipulation, shaming, and Scripture-twisting into these eight minutes.   (The pastor of the church we left 2 years ago sounds just like him, a great mini-MacArthur.)   Here are my observations about him (when I quote him, I will paraphrase because I am not going to watch it over and over again to get the wording exactly right): 1.   In answer to the question about what to say to people while evangelizing to them (such as, should Calvinists honestly tell people that Jesus might not have died...