The Anti-Calvinist Rant

This series  is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist   Point #5 still :   K (part 4):  "Sovereign, sovereign, sovereign, sovereign."       Foreknow vs Foreplan "Oh," the Calvinist replies, "but God needed Assyria (or anybody, for that matter) to be/do evil for His plans, and so He foreplanned they would be/do evil.  They had no ability to do anything else or to choose to be good because God planned to use their evilness.  And so it had to be that way."   My reply to them: "No, I think God foreplanned to  use  Assyria's self-chosen evilness to discipline Israel, but He did not foreplan them to be/do evil.  Assyria had a choice in who they were and what they did.   And God foreknew they would be/chose evil, and so He found a way to work their evil into His plans.  But  if Assyria had chosen to be good instead of evil, God would've for...

This series  is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist   I initially planned on 5k being four parts, but it's going to be 10.  So because there's so many parts, I'm gonna post them weekly to get through it faster.    Point #5 still :   K (part 3):  "Sovereign, sovereign, sovereign, sovereign."     In "sovereign, part 1  and part 2 ", I looked at Calvinism's incorrect belief that "sovereign" necessarily means that God preplans/causes all things.  In these next few posts, I want to further examine their misunderstanding of "sovereign" related to their erroneous conflations of "cause" and "allow"... and "foreknow" and "foreplan"... and "natural evils" and "moral evils"... and their deceptive use of the word "authors."   [There will be some redundancy in here and some review of things I said in the previous part...

I'm interrupting the Alana L. 5K "sovereign" posts to share a couple comments from readers of this blog.  [I'll post the next Alana one in two weeks.  And Happy (early) 4th of July, America!] You may not know this, but I have a separate blog where people can share their comments on any of my blogs: The Comment Corral .  I decided to keep the comments separate and not allow them on this anti-Calvinism blog for a few reasons: 1. My posts are long enough, and so I didn't want to add more length with comments on each one. 2. I'd like my posts to stand on their own, without the back-and-forth debate that can sometimes happen in comments.   3. Sometimes comments enhance what we've read and add to it in a good way, but sometimes they tarnish it and leave us with a bitter taste in our mouths.  And I didn't want to take the chance. 4. If the process of submitting comments was too easy, then people who disagree or don't like what I say might instantaneously ...