Tag: hardening
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Calvin’s Confusion about Predestination: 6 The Potter
God is all powerful. But that does not mean he is pleased with all things that happen, nor that he gets all that he desires. That is a logical leap made by the influential Reformed theologian John Calvin that led to him being confused about what the Bible says about God’s power. Calvin claimed that…
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Calvin’s Confusion about Predestination: 5 Exodus, Pharaoh, Mercy and Hardening
God: (1) Wants all people to be saved. (2) But has mercy on whom he wills and hardens whom he wills. I do not know how those two truths fit together logically because God does not tell me. John Calvin introduced confusion into the Reformed churches by trying to explain how they fit together logically.…
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Calvin’s Confusion about Predestination: 3 Summary of Romans 9-11
John Calvin, and so many who later followed him, was confused about predestination, thinking that God chose some people to be damned. But God wants all people to be saved and takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. This is the third in a series of posts responding to Calvin’s explanation of predestination…