Alana L: 2f (foundation of the world)
This series is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.: 5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist (And starting now, I'm planning on posting every other week, for the most part.) Point #2 Still: F. Alana noted how Calvinists say that they were chosen before the foundation of the world (that their names - the names of "the elect" - were written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world). This error is based on two things: 1. It's based on a mistranslation of Revelation 13:8 , usually from the Calvinist's favorite translation, the ESV: "and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain." "Written before the foundation of the world." Sounds very Calvinist-predestinationy, right? But let’s read it in the King James: ”And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not wr...