A Word to Worried Calvinists
I added these few notes to my post "Is Calvinism's TULIP Biblical?" (which I have updated this week), but I wanted to put it front and center too. Just because. 1. About who my fight is with: Calvinist preachers often use deception and manipulation to spread their theology. (And once you see it, you can't unsee it. Maybe it's my training as a counselor that helped me see it when others didn't.) They deceive by using the same words, concepts, and verses that all Christians use, but they have very different meanings which they keep hidden for as long as possible so that they can reel you slowly and stealthily into Calvinism. And they manipulate by making those who agree with them feel smarter, more humble, and more godly, and by shaming those who would disagree with them. (I watched it happen firsthand.) [Many pew-sitting Calvinists do not think of themselves as being deceptive though and are not necessarily trying to be deceptive; they’ve just be