281 - The Schizophrenic God Of John Calvin

Overview - The Schizophrenic God Of John Calvin. Acts 13:44-48. In our message today, we look at some seemingly crazy controversial verses. In one verse, Paul speaks to the Jews that he’s talking to and speaks to them of conditional salvation. Their salvation or condemnation depended on the fact that they rejected Jesus Christ, by their free will. In another verse Luke records that the gentiles, that Paul was speaking to, were appointed for eternal life, making their salvation dependent upon God making them predestined to eternal life, which supports unconditional salvation depending on God electing them. So, which is true? Conditional election where people have the autonomous free will, so the ability to reject Christ or accept Christ as the Bible teaches, or is it unconditional election, where people are either elected to be saved or elected to not be saved, as John Calvin taught in his double-election doctrine, which ended up creating the modern day 5-point Calvinist faith. Obviously, according to what the Bible plainly teaches, I believe that God gives people autonomous free will to either accept Christ or reject Christ, and I believe that John Calvin, in his double-election doctrine, taught people of a schizophrenic false god, made up of his corrupted teachings of the Bible. So today, I give a pretty comprehensive look at what the Bible teaches against what John Calvin taught, and look at all of the scriptures in question with logic, and hit Calvin’s doctrine with some very serious death blows. May the Lord bless you as you seek Him Pastor Ed.