Posts

Showing posts from December, 2024

Alana L.: 2E (sufficient/efficient)

Image
This series is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist   (Happy New Year early!  Have a blessed 2025!)   [About the numbering of this series: The number refers to which point Alana is on.  The letter is which post it is in my series, one letter per post, but some of Alana's points get more posts/letters than others.] Point #2:  E.  Alana then pointed out how Calvinists say that Jesus's work on the cross was "sufficient for all of humanity, but it's not efficient [for all]."   It's only "efficient" for some, for the elect. I love it when she said this about "sufficient and efficient": "Okay, huh, new words, not in Scripture."  Priceless!   I think these bogus terms - which are  not  in the Bible - are merely a way for Calvinists to sound like they're saying one thing when they really mean another, to sound like they're saying Jesus died for all when they're r...

Alana L.: 1C (faith/salvation), 1D (seeking God)

Image
This series is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist   (Merry Christmas early!😁)   [About the numbering of this series: The number refers to which point Alana is on.  The letter is which post it is in my series, one letter per post, but some of Alana's points get more posts/letters than others.] Point #1 still: C.  Alana  said that, according to the Bible, faith comes by hearing and believing the Word.        She's right.  The Bible teaches that faith comes by hearing the Word.  We hear the Word, and then we believe it, and then we are saved. But not in Calvinism.   In Calvinism, faith comes by election only, by being saved first.  As   Calvinist Loraine Boettner said in  The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination :  "A man is not saved because he believes in Christ; he believes in Christ because he is saved."    And  A...

Alana L.: 1A (inability), 1B (belief is a work)

Image
This series is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist    [About the numbering of the posts in this series: The number refers to which point Alana is on.  The letter is which post it is in my series, one letter per post, but some of Alana's points get more posts/letters than others.]   Point #1:   A: Alana pointed out how Calvinists say "I could never choose God.  I would never choose God.  I can't even want God or seek God, so He had to choose me."    When Calvinists say this, there are (at least) two possible things going on: 1.  They're repeating what Calvinists have taught them to say and believe, convinced that it's what "humble, God-honoring" Christians believe and what the Bible really teaches.  It's part of their doctrine of "total depravity," that humans are so terrible - so "spiritually dead" inside - that they can't do  anything  on their own, not even ...

Alana L. series: Introduction

Image
This series is a breakdown of my long whole post  which is based on this great new 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist .  (FYI, I added some new things to some of the sections.) I've been wanting someone to make a video like this for awhile now - to help people recognize Calvinism when they hear it, to help them realize it's a big deal that they should take seriously and research, and to help them know why it's wrong and how it spreads. Those who've studied against Calvinism know how very tricksy it is.  But those who  don't know anything about it, or how to recognize it, or how it takes over, or how it sounds like it's teaching one thing when it's  really  teaching something totally different, or how it twists or misinterprets Scripture... well, they  are sitting ducks, fish in a barrel who become easy targets for a Calvinist pastor (especially a stealth Calvinist pastor) who slowly and strategically i...