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December 30, 2011
“The elect are whosoever will, and the non-elect, whosoever won’t.”
- Attributed to Henry Ward Beecher; source unknown
Filed under Election, Great Quotes
December 27, 2011 9 Comments
How can God genuinely desire the salvation of those whom He, from eternity, unconditionally determined not to save, and is pleased to exclude? Or in the case of supralapsarianism, which teaches that God specifically created people for the express purpose of destroying them, I ask: How can God genuinely desire the salvation of those whom He has specifically created for the express purpose of destroying, who are doomed from the womb to certain death, whereby God is glorified by their destruction?
Filed under Calvinism, Unconditional Election, Unconditional Reprobation
October 29, 2011
“And into that holy Body, circulating through those holy veins, there went for our sakes all the moral corruption of the world; all the moral pollution of the world was on that holy Body. And in that holy Soul, He made that Soul a sacrifice for sin, the Scriptures say. He offered not only His body but His Soul for mankind. And all of the offences of the human race against God, and against each other… ran in His holy veins… there ran in His holy blood, and upon His holy Body, all the offences, all the pollutions of mankind.”
Audio Sermon: The Voice of Jesus’ Blood
Filed under A.W. Tozer, Limited Atonement
October 28, 2011
Here is a nifty little article from the most recent Answers Research Journal:
Filed under Free Will, Is God the Author of Sin?
October 28, 2011
“God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, ‘O Lord, Thou knowest.’ Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God’s omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.”
- Tozer, The Pursuit of God, p. 68
Filed under A.W. Tozer, Election, Great Quotes, Predestination
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"The mechanics of how God can be the efficient cause of sin without actually doing, and thus being culpable for, sin is inscrutable."
- Paul Kjoss Helseth, in arguing for the Reformed view of Divine providence, in which God causes all things. (Four Views on Divine Providence, p. 28)
"A simple formula for truth is as follows: First you take the love of God for all men, as seen in the gift of His only begotten Son for the redemption of the world by blood sacrifice. Then you eliminate all the teachings of John Calvin. You will then have the truth, according to the Bible, which is the Word of God!"
- John H. Boyd, Christianity Versus the God of Calvin
Freed by Grace (to believe)
Atonement for All
Conditional Election
Total Depravity
Security in Christ
"Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature's night;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray-
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee."
- Charles Wesley, And Can It Be?, 1738
"Over against these humanistic views, the Calvinist accepts both sides of the antimony. He realizes that what he advocates is ridiculous. It is simply impossible for man to harmonize these two sets of data. To say on the one hand that God has made certain all that ever happens, and yet to say that man is responsible for what he does? Nonsense! It must be one or the other, but not both. To say that God foreordains the sin of Judas, and yet Judas is to blame? Foolishness! Logically the author of The Predestinated Thief was right. God cannot foreordain the theft and then blame the thief. And the Calvinist freely admits that his position is illogical, ridiculous, nonsensical, and foolish...The Calvinist holds to two apparently contradictory positions."
- Edwin H. Palmer, The Five Points of Calvinism [p. 85]
"From God's foreknowledge of a free action, one may infer only that the action will occur, not that it must occur. The agent performing the action has the power to refrain, and were the agent to do so, God's foreknowledge would have been different. Agents cannot bring it about both that God foreknows their action and that they do not perform the action, but this is no limitation on their freedom. They are free either to act or to refrain, and whichever they choose, God will have foreknown. For God's knowledge, though chronologically prior to the action, is logically posterior to the action and determined by it. Therefore, divine foreknowledge and human freedom are not mutually exclusive."
-William Lane Craig, The Only Wise God, p. 74
“Note that God is no less sovereign in a world where He chooses to grant His creatures libertarian freedom than He is in a world where He determines everything. Sovereignty cannot simply be equated with meticulous control. Rather, sovereignty is the freedom to choose as one will and to accomplish one’s purposes. If God chooses to create people who are free and to accomplish His purposes through their undetermined choices, it is His sovereign right to do so. Less control is not the same as less sovereignty if God chooses to have less control. A perfectly good and wise God will exercise just the amount of control appropriate for the sort of world he chooses to create."
- Jerry Walls & Joseph Dongell, Why I Am Not A Calvinist, p. 145
"Some Calvinist commentators point to various passages of specific events such as the selling of Joseph into slavery (Gen. 45-50), the crucifixion of Christ (Acts 2:23), and the military actions of the Assyrians (Is. 10). And they are not wrong to do so. Yet one cannot falsely generalize from these particulars and assume that God chooses to exercise His right of sovereignty in the same way for things like the moving of a finger. Perhaps He does, but perhaps He does not; perhaps He does at some times, but not at others.
Yet to suggest such a thing hardly removes any sovereignty from God, for a simple reason that I have yet to see dealt with by a Calvinist commentator (though I may see it in the future): The decision to do nothing is itself a sovereign decision."
- J.P. Holding, http://www.tektonics.org/tulip/ulip.html
"That things eternal are much more considerable than things temporal; that things not seen are as certain as the things that are seen; that upon your present choice depends your eternal lot."
- John Wesley