“It’s not a problem to ask questions but sometimes when certain questions are asked it’s by someone who’s a coward and doesn’t have the conviction to declare their answer.” Mark…
Category: <span>Universalism and Arminianism</span>
The following 6 minute video (although you get the point in about 2 minutes) exposes the difficulty that Calvinists have in defending an eternal hell consistent with their theology and…
Does God “force” His salvation on people and make them love Him like a “Stepford Wife”? Or does He just provide all that He can do to save us and…
Okay, maybe Calvinism doesn’t lead to universalism inexorably–as if every Calvinist must become a universalist. However, many leading universalist theologians are/were Reformed and believed that their Calvinist concepts of God’s…
CONUNDRUM: a confusing and difficult problem or question. D. A. Carson as a neo-Calvinist reflects a theology in the tradition of Dutch theologian and Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper who said: “In…
“I would have to wonder how a God of love can enjoy love from creatures that is not given freely. Of course, someone might argue that, in the end,…
The doctrine most contested within Calvinism is that of the “Limited Atonement” or “Particular Redemption.” This has produced the myriad of “four-point Calvinists” or the so-called 4.5 Calvinism of neo-Reformers…
I read J. I. Packer’s Introduction to John Owen’s Death of Death in the Death of Christ as I was being challenged out of my Arminian position into the Reformed…
I was asked recently about the reformed explanation of the word “all”. Calvinists maintain that the word “all” rarely means every human being that ever lived. Instead they argue that…