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    [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.  And fyi: I re-lettered #5 to streamline it.] Point #5 still :   N:  "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....

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 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.  And fyi: I re-lettered #5 to streamline it.] Point #5 still :   M:  "Sovereign, sovereign, sovereign, sovereign."     In 5K  and 5L , 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 a...

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 ...