"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 since 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. Click on these for 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) . And lastly, seventeenth: From his September 2023 sermon on Jonah. Notice that the whole thing is basically one big contradiction, talking out of both sides of his mouth, double-speak, shaming us for running from God and telling us we need to repent, but then informing us that God