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…
Category: <span>Universalism and Calvinism</span>
Matt Chandler and all adherents to his theology would be quite shocked to hear such a suggestion. However those of the mindset of Arminian Roger Olson would not find this…
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…
God blessed me with good parents, and I will be forever grateful to Him for that. They were certainly not perfect – they had the same weaknesses and shortcomings, and…
Sometimes the truth is so close we can’t see it. Paul says in Romans 10:8 that, ” ‘The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your…
As I reflect on the role of the elect in God’s plan of redemption for the world I am astounded by how it is ever more glorious and stunningly…
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…