Sunday, January 7, 2024

The Calvinist Premise

 The Calvinist premise has no basis in the natural language of Scripture.


Although it is true that the doctrine of man's fallen nature is undeniable and biblical, God treats man as a being capable of voluntary belief or repentance. This is not because man is not fallen by nature, but because God imparts grace to men with the precise purpose that they can voluntarily repent and believe, without this grace acting compulsively, as Calvinism teaches, which postulates that This grace leads men to faith and salvation in an irresistible way.


Trying to support Calvinism with the language of God Himself in Scripture is incoherent. God completely downloads the drive for repentance and faith to man, and even demands faith and repentance from each and every man.


The premise of Calvinism suggests, absurdly, that God, knowing that he has caused man to inherit the fallen nature of Adam, which morally disqualifies him and makes him incapable of doing good, believing or repenting, that God intends It is useless and sarcastically to reason with the depraved man to return to Him, knowing that he is incapable from birth to achieve this.


Calvinism misrepresents the sincerity of God's call to salvation, presenting God as a double-minded being, and no doubt anyone with a modicum of judgment would recognize that this paints God as a deceiver. Therefore, Calvinism is a doctrine that is probably pleasing to the devil; because, if he was not the one who devised it, it certainly aligns with his interest in distorting the character of God.


True biblical doctrine teaches that man is fallen and has sinned against God, that God has so loved the world in his condition that he has provided a means of salvation for all, which is Christ. This salvation is obtained by grace and not by works, through repentance and genuine and voluntary faith of people enabled by grace, which acts not compulsively, but persuasively.


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