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But they aren’t good even if others think so.

That’s why Jesus said about those on whom the tower fell, “unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

Napolitano’s piece totally ignored determinist Christian theology. The proof is that his argument begins with free will.

A Calvinist would argue that human free will can only choose evil and that even an act of faith is initiated by God and not by the insividual.

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A Calvinist would argue that human free will can only choose evil and that even an act of faith is initiated by God and not by the individual.

And that Calvinist would be wrong. Human free will can choose either good or evil.

Acts of faith, though, I will concede are initiated by God, as faith is a gift.

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Will and Ariel Durant wrote, “We shall always find it hard to love the man who darkened the human soul with the most absurd and blasphemous conception of God in all the long and honored history of nonsense.” (On John Calvin, Reformation, p. 490)

No one is without sin; no one is perfect. However, some people are “good” in the sense that they strive with a great deal of success to eschew evil and cultivate theological virtues.

To take it further than that is just splitting hairs.