The Anti-Calvinist Rant

I am reposting some links to other great posts/videos on Calvinism.  Here is one about what John Calvin and today's Calvinists are really like:  What would they have done if they'd been there?  from  Discerning the World  (Two videos, 12 minutes long each)  Interesting!  Very interesting!  Watch it.  It makes me sick to my stomach.

Wanna see some misogynistic quotes from some early reformers (Calvinists before there was Calvinism)?  Check out this post to see what these Calvinist forefathers thought about women (particularly Augustine, Calvin, Luther, and Knox): Misogynistic Quotations from Church Fathers and Reformers (Thank you to James for sharing this link with me.) I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that strong Calvinist churches today tend towards complementarianism ( a stricter "men lead, women follow" method) , such as taught in Wayne Grudem's Biblical Manhood and Womanhood .  (I do not believe woman can be head pastors and elders, but I do not know if I would agree with stricter forms of complementarianism either.  This is all just food-for-thought for you.) For more on that: Is there a Calvinist-Complementarian Connection? Calvinism and Complementarianism: A Response to Kevin DeYoung The Actual 4 Dangers of Complementarianism: A Response to the Gospel Coalition And here is a...

   I am breaking the  "A Random Verse That Destroys Calvinism (And 'Is the ESV a Calvinist Bible'?)"  post up into shorter segments so that each verse (or two) gets it own post. #11:  Since we are on Romans 6, let's look at  Romans 6:17 .  Several versions say something like the King James does:  "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you."   But the ESV, among others, says  "... have become obedient from the heart ..." Why does this matter or make a difference?   Because in the King James, "obeyed" is a verb, and it's clear that the people are doing the obeying.   They  are responsible for obeying.  But in the ESV, "obedient" is an adjective that simply describes the people (as in "they have become obedient people"), but it doesn't say how or what caused them to be obedient.  So it's not necessarily that...

Here are links to a few posts that reveal the cult-like side of Calvinism: "Why Calvinism is a Cult" "Calvinism is a Counterfeit Christian Cult" "Calvinism, Cults, and Control" And here's my long "9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult" post.   I left a comment at Hoppers Crossing Christian Church about their post "Calvinism, Cults, and Control."  I will also print my comment here for your information: I was reading your post "Calvinism, Cults, and Control" (2/02/20) and so much of what you said fits the Calvinist church we recently left.  Here are some of the cult-like things that happened after a Calvinist pastor took over our non-Calvinist church: 1.   From the beginning, he started laying the groundwork that disagreement with him (about his Calvinist view of predestination and God's sovereignty, in particular) was not allowed and that anyone who did disagree with him was unhumble and disagreeing with God.   Things like (para...

Here's another comment I left on the Soteriology 101 post "Frustrated by the state of the world?" .   This one was i n reply to the Calvinist, Rhutchin (I've already written about these comments of his in another post, about his contradictory views regarding the Calvinist order of which comes first: being born-again or hearing the gospel or having faith?): I am not replying for Rhutchin’s sake, but for others who might be reading.  And I know this has been covered many times, so I’ll keep it as brief as I can.  (And then Rhutchin can have the last word.) Calvinists don’t just think that God foreknew who would be saved and who wouldn’t.   [Added note, not part of my comment:  Calvinists regularly accuse non-Calvinists of denying God's foreknowledge because we don't agree that God's foreknowledge of events means that He predestines/causes those events.  But, though they can't see it, it's Calvinists who actually deny God's foreknowledge because, ...

   I am breaking the  "A Random Verse That Destroys Calvinism (And 'Is the ESV a Calvinist Bible'?)"  post up into shorter segments so that each verse (or two) gets it own post. #10:   In  Titus 3:3 , most of the translations (not counting the more recent "conversational-type" translations) say it the way the NIV does:  "At one time we too were foolish, disobedient,  deceived and enslaved  by all kinds of passions and desires ..."   (emphasis added). KJV: "... deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures ..." NASB: "... deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures ..." CSB: "... deceived, enslaved ..." But  the ESV  is one of the very few versions that puts it this way: " ... led astray,  slaves  to various passions and pleasures ..." In the other translations, "deceived and enslaved" are verbs, something that happens to people before they become believers.  They were (allowed themselves to be)...

I have no idea who made this (or who Tyler Vela is, other than that he's a Calvinist), but here's an amusing 2-minute video, featuring Beaker from the Muppets, demonstrating Calvinist "humility":  "Jesus Died for Me Me Me" Notice what he says about God's love: essentially that a generalized, all-encompassing love for mankind isn't good, isn't meaningful, but that it's so much better for God to have a specific, focused love on only a few people.   (And notice how he throws out the accusation of "universalist" if you believe Jesus died for all.  He says that can't be true because there will still be people in hell.  This is a mistake in their thinking because they start from the basis that people cannot choose, and so we can't choose to reject Jesus's offer of salvation.  Therefore, those people must be in hell by God's choice, because they never got the offer of salvation, because Jesus never died for them.  Because i...