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To: Forest Keeper

Congratulations on being so special that God chose you. What criteria did He use?

I could never be a Calvinist because that would mean I was accusing God of being the author and cause of all evil and sin. I will not accuse God of sinning through me when I know that I was given free will and am responsible for my own actions. If Calvinism is true, then God is evil. Thankfully, God is good and true and Calvinism is just another lie.


1,238 posted on 03/13/2010 4:59:06 PM PST by Tramonto (Live Free or Die)
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To: Tramonto; Dr. Eckleburg; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan; RnMomof7
Congratulations on being so special that God chose you. What criteria did He use?

The Potter does not tell us why He chooses to form some lumps of clay into beautiful vases and others into ashtrays. What He DOES tell us is THAT He chose some, but not all. Scripture is crystal clear that not all are God's children.

I could never be a Calvinist because that would mean I was accusing God of being the author and cause of all evil and sin.

In order to be a Calvinist you would have to REJECT the idea that God is the author of sin. It sounds like that would be easy for you. :) God does not exert any force or power upon a person to cause him to commit any particular or general sin. However, I do not mean to say that sin occurs randomly. God has control over all sin that occurs, although He does not author it.

I will not accuse God of sinning through me when I know that I was given free will and am responsible for my own actions.

Calvinism says that God never sins in His own right or through anyone else. Calvinism also says that you are indeed responsible for your own sins.

If Calvinism is true, then God is evil.

No, if Calvinism is true, then men are evil and God is sovereign.

Thankfully, God is good and true and Calvinism is just another lie.

Regardless of what your understanding of Calvinism is, I am thankful that we can agree that God is good and true.

1,282 posted on 03/14/2010 11:35:58 PM PDT by Forest Keeper ((It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.))
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