Calvinism: It's Lesser Critics
The majority of them I've run into are pure "Dave Hunt" esque critics (bashers?). They usually swoop down in forums and start pounding away at the emotional chords of human beings (often without any Bible verses!). We hear "Calvinism makes God unfair", "It makes God a tyrant" etc.
Yes, I do get fed up. But often I bother enough to ask them for any biblical justification. Then the verses start pouring in from them to support Arminianism and devastate, apparently, Calvinism. I happily link to web articles that interpret them correctly, all in vain of course. I could only shake my head when someone- after I linked him to John Piper's treatment on the two wills of God- said something like along these lines concerning his article:
"I haven't read everything yet, but what he says is nonsense."
Sounds like a made up mind to me. I don't bother after that.
Just some thoughts. Calvinism certainly needs more sane, reasonable critics who don't rehash the same old arguments. Who bring a "come let us reason" and learn spirit. If so, then we can make much more progress when it comes to deciding its truth. And hurling cries of "heresy" to Calvinists certainly doesn't help much.
Yes, I do get fed up. But often I bother enough to ask them for any biblical justification. Then the verses start pouring in from them to support Arminianism and devastate, apparently, Calvinism. I happily link to web articles that interpret them correctly, all in vain of course. I could only shake my head when someone- after I linked him to John Piper's treatment on the two wills of God- said something like along these lines concerning his article:
"I haven't read everything yet, but what he says is nonsense."
Sounds like a made up mind to me. I don't bother after that.
Just some thoughts. Calvinism certainly needs more sane, reasonable critics who don't rehash the same old arguments. Who bring a "come let us reason" and learn spirit. If so, then we can make much more progress when it comes to deciding its truth. And hurling cries of "heresy" to Calvinists certainly doesn't help much.
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