Calvinism Destroys God's
Grace
Calvinism is contrary to God's own grace, which
stems from God's love and undeserved kindness. To accept Calvinism is to
proclaim that God does not love all of His creation and that this destroys His
grace. It makes God unloving and unjust to most people in the world. Calvinism
limits God's love only to part of His creation and lies about God's love for
the world (John 3:16). God is love and that is His very nature, so He cannot
deny what He is and deny His love for others because He chooses not to love
them. God says He is love and He cannot be contrary to His nature. God's
sovereignty does not allow Him to deny who He is. How, then, can the Calvinists
accept God as love, when they believe that He withholds His grace from the
world. There is no word in the Bible that limits God's love. God's love is
freely given, and it is limited to sinful humans who cannot accept His love.
But that is not God's fault, but man's. John 3: 15-16 states: “God loved the
world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son.
"If you truly believe those words from
God 's Word, you cannot be a Calvinist. A person goes to hell because he is a
sinner who rejects God, not because God condemned him to hell and refused to
let him repent (Romans 1: 1; 18-23). and His grace concludes that He will break
His nature and withhold His love from the world. God is just and therefore His
justice requires that if a person rejects His grace, and the payment of Christ.
for his sins, then man must pay for himself. ” However, 1 John 2: 2 clearly
states: "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole world." God in human form, came
to earth, suffered, and died for the sins of mankind? ” The Bible answers
wonderfully, YES! So how can Calvinism teach that he did not teach? On what
basis does he teach that God did not transfer His love to all men? (1 John 2:
2).
Calvinism and man's will
Intentionally believing and accepting Jesus Christ as Savior
"in action." One of the first arguments a Calvinist will use to
"prove" their faith is that man is totally depraved and cannot be
saved by intentional faith because that would be "works." They think
that when a person chooses to be saved, his act of will will save him. In
Genesis 2:16-17 God said to Adam, “And the Lord God commanded the man, “Of
every tree of the garden you may eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil you shall not eat. that. Or on the day you eat from it you will surely
die. (Genesis 2:16-17) Didn't God give Adam a choice? He was warned that if he
ate from the forbidden tree he would die. God gave Adam a clear choice. Eat
from all the other trees, but not this one. Jehovah allowed Adam to do His
will. Abel and Cain were also given a choice. Obey God and offer him a blood
sacrifice and acceptance, or reject the word of God, disobey God and be
rejected by him. Abe made a good choice, but Cain didn't.
Throughout the Bible, God gave people a choice. He always told
them what was right, which meant what his will was, and warned them against
making wrong choices. Hebrews 11, which is full of men and women, when God told
them what his will was, they obeyed, believed God, and were “counted righteous.
These "faith warriors" use the will of their God to glorify God.
Joshua urged the Israelites to serve Jehovah and said, "If it is bad in
your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose today whom you will serve, whether the gods
your ancestors served on the other side of the river, or the gods of the
Am′orites, in whose land you inhabit; but I and my house will serve the Lord.
(Joshua 24:15) Israel chose to worship God or idols. It was a choice of
salvation or damnation. Joshua warned them: “If you forsake Jehovah and serve
the gods of other nations, he will turn and do you good and evil and destroy
you and do you good. (Joshua 24:20) If they were totally corrupt and could not
respond, why did God speak to them through Joshua and give them a choice? If
all were “predestined to heaven or hell, so that they could not respond, but
according to the way God had ordained for them, why did they give up? answer,
then the choice and the gift would be a lie to those poor souls. ” It is clear
that God gave them free will and they used their free will to accept or reject
God's offer.
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