"But predestination!" (#17: double-speak and the gospel)

[I wasn't planning on adding another post to this blog - I wanted to be done, but something keeps pulling me back in - but because I added this really late to the post of sermons , I figured it should also get its own post because it's important and should be highlighted and considered.] The rest of the posts in this series are: The pastor's sermons ("When Calvinists say 'But predestination!'"), and my 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) . 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 lastly, seventeenth: From ...