Did God Create Some People for Wrath? Well No! Romans 9:19-23

Romans 9:22-23 is often cited to demonstrate God’s sovereign choice in creating some people for eternal destruction so that he might demonstrate his wrath while making other people to be recipients of his eternal mercy. This understanding highlights God’s eternal, unconditional election. This way, God could put his wrath and mercy on display, which otherwise…

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Does Faith Precede or Result from the New Birth? John 3:1-15

To be a consistent Calvinist, a person must believe that the Bible teaches God limits His redemptive love toward His creation and that limited love is more reflective of God being the sum of perfect love than God extending His salvational love to all of His creation. Of course, the perennial problem with the Calvinist’s…

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Response to “A Better Gospel” Part 2

Following are responses to comments posted by a blogger on the SBCToday blog in response to my comments about his first responses regarding an article entitled A Better Gospel. The two previous articles include my original article, A Better Gospel and the first response to that article. The words “You said” refer to the comments…

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Response to “A Better Gospel”

Following are responses to comments posted by a blogger on the SBCToday blog December 11, 2013, http://sbctoday.com/2013/12/page/2/ in response to the article entitled “A Better Gospel”, which I posted here last week. I introduce his statements which I am responding to by “you said, then follows my response Blogger, Thanks for your response. Here are…

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A Better Gospel!

The good news according to Calvinism is to be proclaimed to everyone everywhere, but it is not good news for everyone who hears. I believe the gospel according to Jesus presents a better gospel. To many it appears that Calvinists, Arminians, Molinists, Traditionalists, etc., all believe the same thing about the gospel while merely differing…

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Response to “The Exalted View of God in Scripture”

Following is my response to a comment to my article “The Exalted View of God in Scripture” posted on SBCToday.com in March 2014. The same article is posted on this blog, April 7th, without all of the comments that can be found on SBCToday.com. When I say “you said” I am referring to his comment…

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Is Libertarian Free Will Eternal? Part VI

This is the sixth and last part of a series of responses by Calvinists to my article on SBCToday (September 2013). (([1]http://sbctoday.com/2013/09/13/is-libertarin-free-will-eternal/#comment-41520)) The full title of the article is “Can Man Endowed with Libertarian Free Will Live Righteously Forever in Heaven?” You may also search this site for the article. The blogger’s comments are emboldened,…

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