For reference (links, including "Why is Calvinism so Dangerous" Series):

Adding the "Why is Calvinism so dangerous?" series buried the previous "last posts" of this blog.  So for reference, here are links to some of the posts right before the series, so that you can quickly find them without a lot of scrolling:  



Here are the links that I put on the left sidebar of this blog:


Links to anti-Calvinist websites/videos: 
Soteriology 101 blog with Leighton Flowers (and on Facebook... YouTube... Podcast) 

Beyond the Fundaments with Kevin Thompson


Idol Killer and his YouTube channel.  (FYI. I think he believes we can lose our salvation, but I don't.)

Also see these: Alana L.... Good Berean... Great Light Studios... Faith on Fire 

Andy Woods Ministries, YouTube series: Neo-Calvinism vs. The Bible

The Bible vs. Calvinism: An Overview by Patrick Myers (one of the best overviews to read about Calvinism and its errors)




Links to non-/anti-Calvinist preachers:
Tony Evans (my favorite!)
Ralph "Yankee" Arnold (my husband recommends him, but I haven't really watched him much)


And since the "Why is Calvinism so Dangerous?" series ends up being in reverse on this blog, I am adding links to each post here, so you don't have to scroll way down to get to the first one (If you read any posts of mine, I think it should be this series!):

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List of Calvinist Preachers, Authors, Theologians, Websites, etc.

I  found a lot more names to add to my list of known Calvinists (found in my various "How to Tell if a Church, Pastor, or Website is Calvinist" posts).  [FYI: I added a note at the bottom of this post on May 5, 2021.]    And so here it is, a "master list" of known Calvinists to help you be careful and discerning about who you listen to and where you get your theology from.  There are plenty more Calvinists out there, but these are just the names that I ran across the most.   These are either definite, self-professed Calvinists or "most likely Calvinists," in my estimation.  (I haven't heard of most of them, but it's good to know their theology before I do.)   After finding these names in various places online, I looked up each person to see if they are Calvinist.  If they did not self-identify as a Calvinist, I tried to figure it out based on the statements of faith of the groups/churches they belong to, the books they write, the t...
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Fending Off Calvinism (a.k.a. Destroying Calvinism in 28 Easy Steps)

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[I'm still taking a short break from writing until September, but - for easier reference - here's the second half of the previous post: Calvinism's Systematic Theology (and how to fend it off) .] How to fend off Calvinism's Systematic Theology Alternative title: "Destroying Calvinism in 28 Easy Steps" [Of course, I don't really think that there's anything truly easy about destroying/debating Calvinism (it's an immense tangled-web of error and cult-ish tactics) or getting Calvinists to realize their theological errors, to realize that they're reading the Bible through faulty Calvi-lenses (they're so convinced it's "biblical Christianity" that they don't even know they should question it or doublecheck it, and they're manipulated into feeling ashamed if they did).] Here are 28 semi-brief examples (I added some after publishing the original post) of Calvinism's foundational errors that will trap us if we don't qu...
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How to Tell if a Church, Pastor, or Website is Calvinist (simplified version)

(For the extended version of this post, which I recommend, click here .  It is loaded with lots more information.  This simplified one is just the highlights.  And feel free to copy this and share it with others, to help them learn to identify Calvinism when they see it.  Just make sure to share the link to this blog so that they can find the original post.  Thank you.  New : For the super-short version, click here .  And FYI: I found a couple times when the Calvinist author of an article I linked to changed their article after I linked to it.  So if their article doesn't seem to match what I said about it, it may be because they altered it. ) We just left our church of almost 20 years because of the dogmatic Calvinist pastor who recently came on board.  ( Read my "Letter to Our Elders Regarding Calvinism Growing in Our Church" here.)   And I was thinking about what precautions I might take to make sure we didn't end up in another...
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The 9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult

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[For the shortened version of this post,  click here .  For the tiniest version, click here .  And since this whole post will take you about 3 hours to read, h ere are links to the individual chapters:  #1 deception  ...  #2 hidden agendas  ...  #3 multiple layers  ...  #4 strategic tactics  ...  #5 isolation/control  ...  #6 fear/coercion  ...  #7 mind-control/thought-reform  ...  #8 gaslighting  ...  #9 authoritarian narcissists  ...  conclusion and links ] A  Psychology Today article -  Understanding Cults: The Basics  - shares some characteristics of cults and how they operate (my paraphrase; I've condensed some of them here to three main points):  1. No one knowingly, voluntarily joins a cult, but they are "recruited" into it by cult leaders who take advantage of the vulnerabilities of the recruits, using deception and manipulation to suck them in. 2. ...
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Why Is Calvinism So Dangerous? (re-updated)

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Because it  appears  to teach biblical truth while actually teaching  the opposite  - while using  manipulation and cult-like tactics to suck you in!  And it's spreading.  Stealthily, fast, aggressively. (We watched it happen firsthand in our church, which is why I wrote this blog.  See  "What's the best way to make people agree with your Calvinist views?"    Sadly, we ended up  leaving that church , a place we attended almost 20 years.) [ I updated this November 2022 to try to shorten it.  I failed.  But I hope it's more readable and streamlined at least.   If you only read one anti-Calvinism post of mine, I think it should be this one.  But I'm warning you, this post is long.  Very long.  So pack a lunch and bring a sleeping bag.  But it has to be long because Calvinism is so deceptively convoluted that it takes time to peel off the layers so that you can see it for what it really is.  ...
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My Testimony

I’ve scattered bits of my story all over my blogs, but I’m gonna pull it all together here, about how I became a believer and some things I’ve gone through and how my faith has been affected.  (I’ll include links to posts where I explain things more fully.) Starting the journey:   I became a believer when I was eleven years old.   (I am now getting close to 50.   I don't know how that happened. )   At a Christian camp, on one of the last nights, they gave an altar call.   I wanted to go up but was nervous about standing up in front of everyone.   But being more nervous about the window of opportunity closing, I felt myself stand up and walk to the front.   I knew exactly what I was doing, that I was making a commitment for life.   And I meant it.   I really meant it.   I knelt down, asked Jesus into my heart, and have never turned back.   It hasn’t been an easy, carefree journey (as you’ll see), but I haven’t turned back (tho...
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When Calvinism's "Bad Logic" Traps Good Christians!

(Part of this - altered, though - comes from the post "12 Tips on How to Critically Think about Calvinism" .  And I will be breaking these down into smaller points in separate posts soon.) Calvinism ... I'm just gonna come right out and say it ... is built on bad logic.  Really, really bad logic! Calvinism is not build solidly on Scripture as it was written ; it's built on their own presumptions, assumptions, and misconceptions about who God is and how they think He has to act in order to be the kind of "sovereign" God they think He is.  It's built on their own ideas of what verses must mean if they perceive God to be a certain way, totally missing what the verse is really saying because God is really not the way they think He is. Calvinism is about as stable as building a house of cards on a foundation of Jell-O. But ... Calvinism is so convincing because no one stops to question the bad logic that it's built on - the presumptions, assump...
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Leaving Calvinism: Comments from Ex-Calvinists #11

Here is the last of the ex-Calvinist testimonies.  The first one is from this post:  X-Calvinist Corner .   (It's an Arminian website, but I am not Arminian.)  I am going to highlight some of the comments that stood out to me the most.  If you want to read everything that everyone said, click on the link above: Dana Steele writes: I grew up in a Calvinistic Baptist church from age 11.  The 5-points of Calvinism (TULIP) were taught regularly with great enthusiasm ... But it wasn’t until college that I began to understand and embrace the “Doctrines of Grace” and TULIP more fully....  I also learned to love the doctrine of election because it meant that God loved me personally and specifically in a unique way.  Though it made me a little embarrassed to think that God did not love everyone this way, I was content to leave this as a mystery.  Who am I to question God?  I was just glad I was one of the lucky (I mean chosen) ones. ... [As ...
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Why is Calvinism so dangerous? #3 (Free-will choices?)

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[In this series, I'm breaking the long post   "Why is Calvinism so dangerous?"   into bite-sized pieces.] 3. The Bible shows ...  We are responsible for our choices, sins, and unbelief.  God calls us to make choices, real choices among real options (and lets us face the consequences of those choices). But Calvinism says ...  God ultimately preplans/controls everything we think and do, and we can only do - and  have to do  - the thing He predestined us to do.  He is the ultimate cause of all sin and unbelief, but we  are still held accountable for it. Deut. 28:1,15:   "If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.... However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you." 1 Kings 2:3:   "and observe...
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When Calvinists say "But predestination!" (sermons)

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[Subtitle: My Calvinist pastor's sermons, and my thoughts about it all! This was mainly written for those in my ex-church, to see our Calvinist pastor's own words, and why I think he's wrong.  In the series of posts following this one, I comment more on the things he preached and where he goes wrong.   Here are the rest of the posts in this series:  M y comments # 1-4 (election)  and  5-6 (Romans and sovereignty)  and  7-9 (depravity, Book of Life, predestine)  and  10-11 (shaming tactics, Feb. 2015)  and  12-14 (dead, regeneration, born again)  and  15 (total depravity, manipulation)  and   16A (God's Will, babies)  and   16B (sin, evil, suffering)  and   17 (double-speak and the gospel) . The shorter version of this series - with a lot less quotes and a lot less of my thoughts, written for everyone and not mainly for those in my ex-church - can be found here .  And click here for t...
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