The Anti-Calvinist Rant

A great song to "celebrate" Halloween:  Witch's Invitation (Carman) Wanna know why I take the spiritual world so seriously?  Wanna know why I am so sure that there's a spiritual world out there, good and evil, God and Satan?  Wanna know one reason I am so secure in knowing that I chose rightly in staking my life, my soul, on Jesus?  (We all stake our souls on something.  What are you staking yours on?) Here's why (from my other blog): In "Honor" of Halloween: My Story of Demonic Harassment I don’t expect anyone to believe me, but I’m going to share my story.    (And for the longer version of this story on my other blog,  click here .)   It’s my story about how I came to fully trust in Jesus’s name and to passionately cling to Him, to never be able to doubt the existence of a spirit world, to place such a high priority on prayer and God’s Word, and to always remember that we are in a spiritual battle and that we need our spiritual armor (...

  I am breaking the  "A Random Verse That Destroys Calvinism (And 'Is the ESV a Calvinist Bible'?)"  post up into shorter segments so that each verse (or two, or ten) gets it own post. FYI: I have posts scheduled up till the end of the year, and then after that I will be taking a long break from writing.  Maybe permanently.  I need it.  #25-33:   I found the following verses  in this post  (be careful, though, because “Presbyterian” is generally code for "Calvinist," which makes me even more impressed that they would write so strongly against the ESV).    It’s very long and very in-depth (and I’ll have to read it again more slowly to understand what I couldn’t grasp the first time around), but I am putting this all here for your consideration as you contemplate the validity of the ESV.    (FYI: There are other translations that do the same thing the ESV does with these verses, based on what manuscripts they use for their t...

Do you think Jesus was just a man?  A good teacher?  A nice guy?  A myth? What if you're wrong? What if He really is who He said He is? What if He's the answer you've been looking for all your life? What if it's time you took a leap of faith? (And what if He really is coming back again soon?) What If? (Nicole Nordeman) [And since this blog is about Calvinism:  You Calvinists think and teach that God doesn't love everyone, that Jesus didn't die for everyone, that not everyone can be saved.  You teach that God only loved a few preselected people, that Jesus only died for those preselected people, and that only those preselected people can be saved.  You teach that God makes our decisions for us, that we have no choice about Him, that we cannot do the one thing He said we need to do to be saved: believe in the Lord Jesus.  You teach (though you might deny it) that God causes all sin and evil and unbelief for His glory and pleasure. But what if you're wron...

[This is based on a post I found online: What's wrong with Five-Point Calvinism?   I was going to send a copy of that post to my relative who is in jail awaiting trial, but I ended up adding so many of my own notes that it became a whole new post.  (But there are still some very similar parts, and I give credit to the author of that post for what he wrote.  Read it.  It's short and good and worth reading.)  My relative (who dabbled in, if not embraced, Calvinism, at least back in the day) shares what I send with the women on her floor, doing their own little Bible study.  And so I figured, "Why not send them my thoughts on Calvinism since I know they will read it?"  And as a bonus, the cops have to read every letter that passes between us, and so they will have to read it too!  A captive audience!  (Ha Ha!  Bad joke.  But if I don't laugh, I'll cry.)  Anyway, this is what I sent to her, a "brief" look into Calvinism's TULIP....