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Why “God hated Esau” is of no use to the Calvinist
September 11th, 201107:42 PM ETPete asked what a person who believes God is omnibenevolent does with "God hated Esau" (Malachi 1:3; Romans 9:13). There are a number of complexities in these passages. To begin with, there is the fact that the specific individuals Jacob and Esau serve as symbols representing people groups (Israel and Edom, or more broadly, insider and outsider). ... -
God’s arbitrary choices and election
August 04th, 201111:05 AM ETI have argued the the implications of the Calvinist view of election is that God's choice of those who are elect is arbitrary. But what do I mean by "arbitrary"? I mean this: Arbitrary decision: any decision between two or more options where one option is chosen but another option was equally feasible. For example, it is a choice between a and b w... -
Tigers, Tabbys, and God’s special love for his elect
August 01st, 201109:34 AM ETWho says God has to love everybody equally? (Sentimental Arminians, that's who.) "Au contraire mon frere" says the Calvinist. There is nothing wrong with God having a general love for all humanity even as he has a special love for his elect. And why shouldn't it be so? After all, as Linda asks, "Is it right for a man to love his wife differently ... -
The day the Arminian Pride Parade came to Geneva
July 31st, 201110:33 AM ETThe Genevans were outraged to learn that the mayor had declared April 1 "Arminian Pride Day." "Political correctness run amok!" the Calvinists growled. "And right here in our fair city. Why can't those Arminians just go back in the closet?" Rumor even had it that the Home Depot and Disneyland were both sponsoring the Arminian Pride Parade. And perh... -
Do Arminians have the same problem as Calvinists?
July 29th, 201110:49 AM ETPaul Manata offers a response to my article "Calvinism preaches a God of love, and yet..." The response was a tu quoque, an argument form which functions like this: Randal and Paul were walking home from the Barry Manilow concert when Paul was surrounded by a group of growling headbangers who were focused on his powder blue concert T-shirt. Just b... -
Calvinism preaches a God of love, and yet…
July 27th, 201101:18 AM ETThe central objection to Calvinism has always been, and will always be, that God's decision to elect some people to salvation whilst leaving (or electing) others to damnation is inconsistent with the notion of divine love. But Calvinists are not without their rebuttals. One common rejoinder is to argue that our understanding of love is imperfect. ... -
A Reformed voice brings clarity to free will, providence and election
July 25th, 201102:37 PM ETThere is no shortage of confusion among the recent wave of "new Calvinists" on the Reformed understanding of free will, providence and election. This became very clear to me a couple years ago when my book Finding God in the Shack was critiqued by popular Reformed blogger Tim Challies for providing a correct outline of the historic Reformed vi... -
Does universalism have a chance in hell of being true?
February 15th, 201111:36 AM ETThomas Talbott has pointed out that one can find evidence from scripture to support the following three incompatible claims: (1) God wants to save everyone (2) God can save everyone (3) Not everyone will be saved Since this is an inconsistent set, a person has to give up at least one of these propositions. And so Christians do. The Calvinist g... -
Does God hate those he does not save?
January 13th, 201010:56 AM ETMany Christians assume that God loves all people. This is hardly surprising since scripture declares that God loves all creation (John 3:16-17) and desires to see all people saved (1 Tim.2:4; 2 Pe.3:9). Indeed, the notion that God is loving to all, a doctrine known among theologians by the fancy name "omnibenevolence", would qualify for many as a b... -
Does Calvinism undermine the sovereignty of God?
January 09th, 201005:43 PM ETAfter some years in the hinterland of North American evangelicalism, Calvinism is once again on the rise. (For a good synopsis of the trend see Collin Hansen, Young, Restless, Reformed (Crossway, 2008).) One of the reasons people become Calvinists is because Calvinism, we are told, upholds God's sovereignty. In particular, it upholds God's sovereig...
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