Response to My Calvinist Friends

Regarding this quote from Spurgeon:

To submit to a Creator who is too wise to err and too good to be unkind should not be difficult.
~Spurgeon

Submission is an act of the will which a person under Calvinism cannot do. All commands of God are meaningless under a Calvinistic framework. God cannot command all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30), when he gave them no ability to do so. How can Jesus preach “Repent and believe the Good News” (Mark 1:15) when it is impossible for a person either to repent or believe?

Since God preordained everything that happens, and everything is unchangeably God’s will, then every act of violence, every rape, every murder, and every war is his doing. You can’t deny that from a Calvinistic point of view. Everything that happens is God’s will. From the Westminster Confession: “God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin; nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.” Notice–“whatever comes to pass” was ordained by God This makes God the author of evil. Even though the second part that says “neither is God the author of sin” that does not make it so. You can’t have a round square no matter how much you preach it.

Removing God one step back does not make him less responsible for evil. Two cases in point from scripture, not quotes from other Calvinists: One, who was responsible for Uriah’s death? David was, even though he used the sword of the Ammonite army. God still held David responsible for Uriah’s death. Two, who was responsible for Naboth’s death? Ahab was, even though two “scoundrels” rose up against him and the people put him to death, God held Ahab responsible. Calvinism makes God responsible for all evil no matter how you phrase it. The square cannot be round, yet circular at the same time. That flies in the face of reality.

I know you believe you have the scripture on your side, but every cult believes it has the scripture on its side. Calvinism distorts the scripture. It distorts the nature of God. It makes Him the author of all evil in the world.

There are other and better ways to interpret the scripture rather than through a Calvinistic worldview. I lost respect for MacArthur when I began to see how he distorted and added to the scriptures to make them teach what he wanted them to say. It was not just over Calvinism either.

If I am wrong and you are right, then I could do no other. I was preordained for this before the beginning of time. I could never change because God predestined this for me. Calvinism is not found in the Bible. The god of Calvinism is not the God of the Bible.

If I am right, I will pray for you that God will open your eyes to see the errors of Calvinism. If you are right, there is absolutely no need to pray for anything because everything has already been predetermined and nothing can change.