Why calvinism is true

I can debate young earth creationism vs. I can have differences of opinion with my friends about health care or global warming or eschatology or women in church leadership without taking it personally or holding a grudge. I generally accept differences in biblical interpretation with a shrug of my shoulders.

It happened again the other night when I was talking with my sister about Calvinism. Ohio State game on TV. We Helds like nothing better than theological discussions, mixed with college football, topped with steaks on the grill.

It means that God does not love the world; he hates it. If Calvinism is true, it means that if that dying little girl that you held in your arms in India was not among the elect, then God did not love her. He never had any intention of loving her. She was nothing to Him.

In fact, he would delight and find glory in her eternal torture in hell. The truth-seeker need go no further than this very first of the five points of Calvinism to see that this whole system of theology is false. Clearly, the false god of Calvinism is not the one true God presented in Holy Scripture.

Free will involves the ability to choose life or death Deuteronomy ; Joshua ; Romans , etc. Any small child knows that — it takes a brainwashing to be convinced otherwise. Dare we call God a fool? Jude tells us that such must be earnestly contended against and exposed for what it is. When the Calvinist is told that he has nothing — not one iota of involvement — in appropriating and remaining in the salvation of Christ, he loses all fear of God and is inevitably not going to be vigilant, watching for the soon return of Christ, or being holy as Christ is holy.

Most popular, limelight authors and radio personalities teach this evil system of theology which depicts the image of a false god. For example: John Piper, R. In the video below, Matt Chandler openly admits to being converted over to all five false points of Calvinism.

You will witness firsthand the diabolical workings of John Piper, master Calvinism initiator, high priest of this craft of Calvinism, as he demonstrates his success in sucking yet another younger pastor into the cult of Calvinism. For example, they major on Romans 9 while intentionally ignoring Romans which is part of the same passage. Below is a video of Matt Chandler being interviewed by false teacher John Piper who is a 5-point Calvinist.

Also, see commentary beneath the video. As you view this video, note that there is little mention of Scripture. Amazing apostasy! Matt Chandler makes it clear that he had to be converted over to Calvinism and he was by John Piper. In the video, Matt says something that many have also stated. In other words, he had to wrestle with believing it. The diligent, Berean Bible student will see right through this deceitful attempt to subvert the truth Acts ; ; Titus ; Folks, just because someone can seems convinced or convicted about something, does NOT make that something true.

When they heard even the apostle Paul preach, they tested what he said against the written Word. In this video, Chandler stumbles over his words. But Matt, who cares what YOU believe or think? What did God say in His Word?

Has He not spoken? In fact, Chandler readily admits to not coming straight out in the open about telling his audience at The Village Church that he is teaching Calvinism.

But what is there to hide Matt Chandler? What darkness is Matt Chandler hiding? What is he afraid of? The hump of truth is what people have to jump over to believe such things as are taught in Calvinism!

In other words, you have to jump over mountains of Bible truth to believe such an evil indictment against our LORD God which is what Calvinism is. Matt Chandler is very seductive and subversive in his use of Proverbs Do you now begin to see just how delusional Calvinists are in seeking to marry that system of diabolical lies with the true Gospel? Satan himself and damnation are also mentioned in this passage 2 Thessalonians After all, they did. Only a wolf would seek to lead people to believe something based on the idea that they the wolves have believed that something.

The only answer would be Satan who is the father of all lies.. Note how he presents this as a conversion over into this whole system of belief known as Calvinism. If you understand Calvinism, you understand that it leads to futility. Because when a person is seduced by devils to believe that he has NOTHING at all to do with participation in being saved, that person then tosses responsibility to the wind, does not fear and obey God.

Satan loves this masterpiece he created, beginning in the Garden of creation. What is the difference between those who follow Joseph Smith delusional founder of Mormonism and those who follow John Calvin? The Calvinist ex-es Jesus and His holy original apostles out of his false theology. When you do, you will bring forth the fruit of repentance which will begin with trashing this fairytale theology you have bought into.

Calvinism does not instill the fear of God in anyone which should be a huge red flag. Not even one of the five points of Calvinism comes from Scripture. In fact, each one of them is the opposite of what Holy Scripture teaches. Calvinism is a mockery of Christ and His blessed Gospel.

Mormonism and Calvinism are very similar ….. Calvinism is a cult where all of the adherents are taught a whole system of lies.

Now friends, that is the work of the enemy of the Almighty. Just as he did in the Garden with the first woman, so he does today, adding to, taking away, and twisting divine truth. Quotes of John Calvin … draw your own conclusions. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death.

Calvin Institutes 06 emphasis mine. My reply is that no mention is made here of the secret decree of God by which the wicked are doomed to their own ruin, but only of His loving-kindness as it is made known to us in the Gospel. There God stretches out His hand to all alike, but He only grasps those in such a way as to lead to Himself whom He has chosen before the foundation of the world. Nothing happens by chance. They are not only in bondage to him, but are forced to serve him. This may seem paradoxical at first sight to some….

Are you following a dead heretic? Sign up for free email devotional here. It truly is hard for me to keep silent when I see heresy.

I just have to say something. Thank you Jesus for continually showing me the truth. I almost bought into this lie. I do say almost. Thank you Jesus for protecting me. Everyone has been, is getting and will get a chance to repent…. I mean, when you reject any of the scripture or explain it away with private interpretations, you are really taking the authority away from God and claiming it as your own.

One says repentance is not necessary one says only faith, another says baptism is nothing and many say all you have to do is believe. Let God be right and every man a liar.

This would include the sinner…. God is holy. It is because of our free will the evil happens and God is absolved from it, because it is our choice not his. Calvinism is a threat. Ultimately, this false theology would have you believe that God is a God who is playing chess with Himself, deciding who He loves best out of all His equally sinful chess pieces, like a kid playing favorites.

If these guys are going to speak out against this in a delusional stereotypical way then they should stop setting up straw men to burn down. Are there hypercalvinists? Yep…but not to the degree these with false Arminian theology make a claim for. No type of Calvinism is biblical…. Shawn, I am not an Arminian, just a Bible believer. Thank you so much for writing the article you did about The Idiocy of Calvinism.

I read more than half of it to my family last night and we had a wonderful time in study, prayer, and discovery. Thank you very much for writing this article and I hope that it helps others as well. God Bless you brother! Whoever wrote that article is under strong delusion as to the meaning of this scripture. It is a mystery to all who trust in the Savior why they should have been chosen and others passed over.

It crucifies human pride and gives all the glory to God! I sincerely pray that your thoughts would be conformed to those of Christ in this vital matter. This he said, signifying what death he should die. John The doctrines of Calvinism clearly and brazenly call the very Son of God a liar. I encourage you to seek Him and His truth.

He showed me that I was wrong and deceived and I repented! Notice the poor logic and doctrinally driven hermeneutic: according to the Calvinist ALL men are dragged— but of course somehow they are not all saved!!! And then amusingly you try to rub this in the face of Arminians as some sort of proof text for irresistable grace!!!!

Great example of Reformed exegesis! God bless! What Bible said that? It is wholly on God's part and without condition. By unconditional election Calvin meant that God has already decided who will be saved and who will be lost, and the individual has absolutely nothing to do with it. He can only hope that God has elected him for Heaven and not for Hell. This teaching so obviously disagrees with the oft-repeated invitations in the Bible to sinners to come to Christ and be saved that some readers will think that I have overstated the doctrine.

Not all men are created with similar destiny but eternal life is foreordained for some , and eternal damnation for others. Every man, therefore, being created for one or the other of these ends, we say, he is predestined either to life or to death. So Calvinism teaches that it is God's own choice that some people are to be damned forever. He never intended to save them. He foreordained them to go to Hell. And when He offers salvation in the Bible, He does not offer it to those who were foreordained to be damned.

It is offered only to those who were foreordained to be saved. This teaching insists that we need not try to win men to Christ because men cannot be saved unless God has planned for them to be saved. And if God has planned for them to be eternally lost, they will not come to Christ. There is the Bible doctrine of God's foreknowledge, predestination and election. Most knowledgeable Christians agree that God has His controlling hand on the affairs of men.

They agree that according to the Bible, He selects individuals like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David as instruments to do certain things He has planned. Most Christians agree that God may choose a nation-particularly that He did choose Israel, through which He gave the law, the prophets, and eventually through whom the Saviour Himself would come- and that there is a Bible doctrine that God foreknows all things.

I have often said, "Did it ever occur to you that nothing ever occurred to God? God in His foreknowledge knows who will trust Jesus Christ as Saviour, and He has predestined to see that they are justified and glorified.

He will keep all those who trust Him and see that they are glorified. But the doctrine that God elected some men to Hell, that they were born to be damned by God's own choice, is a radical heresy not taught anywhere in the Bible.

In the booklet Mr. Lockman attempts to prove the five points of Calvinism. Under the point, Unconditional Election, he quotes Ephesians , but he only quotes the first part of the verse: "He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.

Lockman, like most Calvinists, stopped in the middle of the verse. The entire verse reads: "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. It says we are chosen that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Under the same point, Unconditional Election, Mr. Lockman quotes John , "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. Lockman, like most Calvinists, stops in the middle of the verse.

The entire verse reads: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

The verse says nothing about being chosen for Heaven or Hell. It says we are chosen to go and bring forth fruit, which simply means that every Christian is chosen to be a soul winner.

The fruit of a Christian is other Christians. Proverbs says, "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. Nowhere does the Bible teach that God wills for some to go to Heaven and wills others to go to Hell.

The Bible teaches that God would have all men to be saved. Second Peter says that He is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Those who teach that God would only have some to be saved, while He would have others to be lost are misrepresenting God and the Bible. Does God really predestinate some people to be saved and predestinate others to go to Hell, so that they have no free choice?

Absolutely not! Nobody is predestined to be saved, except as he chooses of his own free will to come to Christ and trust Him for salvation. And no one is predestined to go to Hell, except as he chooses of his own free will to reject Christ and refuses to trust Him as Saviour.

John says, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. Nothing could be plainer. And the man who goes to Hell does so because he refuses to come to Jesus Christ and will not trust Him as Saviour. By limited atonement, Calvin meant that Christ died only for the elect, for those He planned and ordained to go to Heaven: He did not die for those He planned and ordained to go to Hell.

Again I say, such language is not in the Bible , and the doctrine wholly contradicts many, many plain Scriptures.

For instance, the Bible says in I John , "He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world. The Bible teaches that Jesus is the Saviour of the world. John says, "And said unto the woman, Now we believe , not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

John says, " For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. No man will ever look at Jesus Christ and say, "You didn't want to be my Saviour. Jesus wants to be the Saviour of all men. As a matter of fact, I Timothy says, "For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

The Bible teaches that Christ bore the sins of all people. Isaiah says, "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The first "all" speaks of the universal fact of sin- "All we like sheep have gone astray. If all went astray, then the iniquities of all were laid on Christ. Not only did He bear the sins of us all, but the Bible plainly teaches that He died for the whole world.

Look at John "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world. Nothing could be plainer than the fact that Jesus Christ died for every man. First timothy ,6 says, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all. Look at the statements--statement after statement: "that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man"; "Who gave himself a ransom for all"; "delivered him up for us all.

John has often been called "the heart of the Bible. He suffered Hell for every man who has ever lived or ever will live. And no man will look out of Hell and say, "I wanted to be saved, but Jesus did not die for me. Some argue that if Jesus died for the whole world, the whole world would be saved.

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross made it possible for every man everywhere to be saved. But only those who believe that He died to pay their sin debt and who trust Him completely for salvation will be saved. Again I quote John , "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. The atonement is not limited. Romans says, "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. A famous English preacher spoke in an English town, then rushed to catch his train for London.

A sinner who heard him preach felt that he must immediately settle the matter of salvation. So he followed the preacher to the train.

Just as the train pulled into the station, he took hold of the preacher's lapel and said, " I want to be saved! Tell me how! The minister said, "I must catch this last rain to London. Do you have a Bible? Read it carefully. Go in at the first all, and come out at the last all, and you will be saved.

The preacher rushed away, and the anxious sinner was left alone. He went back to his home, and opening his Bible, he turned to Isaiah What did the preacher mean, he wondered--"Go in at the first all and come out at the last all, and you will be saved"?

He found the verse and read it carefully: "All we like sheep have gone astray. Well, he thought to himself, I can certainly go in at the first all.

I have gone astray. I am a poor, lost sinner. The he read the last part of the verse, "And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. And if I rely upon that, I will be saved. That's what the preacher meant. He then trusted Christ and was saved. He believed that he was a sinner, and that all his sins had been laid on Christ.

The fourth point of Calvinism is irresistible grace. By irresistible grace, John Calvin meant that God simply forces people to be saved. God elected some to be saved, and he let Jesus Christ die for that elect group. And now by irresistible grace, He forces those He elected, and those Jesus Christ died for to be saved. The truth of the matter is, there is no such thing as irresistible grace. Nowhere in the Bible does the word "irresistible" appear before the word "grace".

That terminology is simply not in the Bible. It is the philosophy of John Calvin, not a Bible doctrine. The word "irresistible" doesn't even sound right in front of the word "grace. Grace means "God's unmerited favour. Grace is an attitude, not a power. If Calvin had talked about the irresistible drawing power of God, it would have made more sense.

But instead, he represents grace as the irresistible act of God compelling a man to be saved who does not want to be saved, so that a man has no choice in the matter at all, except as God forcibly puts a choice in his mind. Calvinism teaches that man has no part in salvation, and cannot possibly co-operate with God in the matter. In no sense of the word and at no stage of the work does salvation depend upon the will or work of man or wait for the determination of his will.

Does the Bible say anything about irresistible grace? The Scriptures show that men do resist and reject God.