God's Sovereignty and our free will
Gods
Sovereignty and mans free will.
The Total
Inability passed to us makes it impossible for us to comply with the
command to believe in Christ. The most obvious fault with this doctrine
is that it makes the gospel an unreasonable demand. How can God, who is
perfectly just, "command all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30),
knowing the command is impossible to obey?
This is a vexing
problem for Calvinists. They will often assert that a command does not
necessarily imply the ability to keep it. But the statement is certainly
not self-evident. If God gives a command and threatens to punish as
responsible agents those who do not comply, it certainly does imply the
ability to obey. Orville Dewey writes: "...it would follow that men are
commanded, on peril and pain of all future woes, to love a holiness and
a moral perfection of God, which they are not merely unable to love, but
of which, according to the supposition, they have no conception."9 That
puts the Calvinist in a conundrum.
Man is so corrupt, he will
not and cannot obey even the slightest spiritual command - nor can he
appreciate or even understand it. Yet, God orders him to believe; He
punishes him for not believing. As Judge of the Universe, he justly
condemns the sinner for not doing what he from birth cannot do. This
seems to many of us to be at loggerheads with God's revealed character.
See the fall of Calvinism made simple at the end of these videos
I have provided five video below on this very important study
Dr. Adrian Rogers on Calvinism,
Predestined to Hell? Absolutely Not" The Fall of Calvinism The Total Inability passed to us makes it impossible
for us to comply with the command to believe in Christ. The most obvious
fault with this doctrine is that it makes the gospel an unreasonable demand.
How can God, who is perfectly just, "command all men everywhere to repent"
(Acts 17:30), knowing the command is impossible to obey? Adam sins cause the death of all humans on planet
earth. Since we can clearly see that
Jesus Christ is the pattern of the first Adam.
Therefore, Jesus Christ death on the cross had to pay the sin debt
for All and I mean All the human
race. This is the only
interpretation that is sufficient for us today.
Now let see if the Clavinets can bastardize this verse as they do the
rest of words, like
“World and All, elect, and especially
the Blood of Christ. Romans 5:18 Romans 5:12
[ Death
Through Adam, Life Through Christ ] Therefore, just as sin
entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this
way death came to all people, because all sinned— 1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all
will be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:44-46 44 it is sown
a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body,
there is also a spiritual body. 45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.”
The last Adam became a life-giving
spirit. Romans 10:13 13 for “Whoever
will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Titus 2:11 11 For the grace of God
has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, John 12:32 32 And
I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.” Romans 2:11 For God does not show
favoritism. Rev 20:1-4 Then
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been
beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God,
and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received
the mark
on their forehead and on their hand;
and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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Dr. Norman Geisler on Calvinism
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The five tenets of Calvinism
are so tightly and logically knit together that if you accept one, you must
accept them all. Conversely, if you deny one, you must deny them all.
The child of God can fall from grace (Galatians 5:4; Hebrews 6:4-6; Acts
8:9-24).
The Perseverance of the Saints is not a valid doctrine.
If a child of God can fall from grace, then God’s grace must not be
irresistible so the doctrine of Irresistible Grace falls.
And if
God’s grace is not irresistible, then a person must be free to choose
whether he will accept that grace or not. So the doctrine of Unconditional
Election falls.
And if a person is free to make the good choice to
accept God’s grace, we cannot say that Christ died only for the elect. We
must say, along with the apostle Paul (1 Tim. 2:6), that He died for the
sins of all people. So the doctrine of Limited Atonement collapses.
And if a person can make a good choice, he must not be “wholly defiled in
the all the faculties of soul and mind.” Therefore, the doctrine of Total
Hereditary Depravity falls.
The whole system of Calvinism comes
crashing to the ground when one applies the Truth of Scripture to it.
Did God choose or
did you choose......the answer is Yes! Listen to the wonderful message of
God's redemptive plan for the world!
Next two videos from Charles
Stanley also on the subject of Calvinisms.
Audio message only.
First one gives the history of Calvin
People who believe in Calvinism are extremely ignorant and arrogant. They heartlessly claim that God chose for most people to not be saved; yes, it's true that most people will not be saved, but that will be by their own choosing with their own FREE WILL; God is not responsible for people's choice not to believe in him. If you ask a Calvinist to choose what kind of desert they want, I'm surprised they don't get utterly confused and wait on God to make them choose which one.
When it says that God hardened Pharaoh's heart, that does not necessarily mean that He literally made his heart hardened; it's a general claim that because of what God was doing, Pharaoh instead of choosing to obey God, disobeyed God. It's really that simple. There are parts that are literal and parts of the bible that are metaphorical.
MaCarthur says "Yes"
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