Not Calvinism = universalism and paganism is a horrible equivalency and false dichotomy. If thats the case, the everyone up until Augustine was a universalist.
Calvinist scholar Lorraine Boettner himself said that determinism didn't exist in the church world until Augustine - a former Manichaean and himself the weaver and sower of the belief system into Christian thought.
Calvinism speaks of bondage of the will, but it doesn't speak of the bondage of the mind and soul it brings - how do I know if I'm elect? How do I know it isn't evanescence grace and I'm really a reprobate that God allows to THINK is saved (Calvin's Institutes, sect 2 and ch 11 I believe).
Calvinism is full of what-ifs and ripping texts from their context to create pretext. Its a human philosophy, of which Paul warned against.
The fatalism comparison between the two is compelling to me. Calvinism has so many areas of disagreement. My equivalence was in response to someone suggesting my rejection of Calvinism makes a universalist.
Brother I know where you stand. To say someone is a universalist is a debate tactic that became codified into their rhetoric by Sproul and a few others.
Not Calvinism = universalism and paganism is a horrible equivalency and false dichotomy. If thats the case, the everyone up until Augustine was a universalist.
Calvinist scholar Lorraine Boettner himself said that determinism didn't exist in the church world until Augustine - a former Manichaean and himself the weaver and sower of the belief system into Christian thought.
Calvinism speaks of bondage of the will, but it doesn't speak of the bondage of the mind and soul it brings - how do I know if I'm elect? How do I know it isn't evanescence grace and I'm really a reprobate that God allows to THINK is saved (Calvin's Institutes, sect 2 and ch 11 I believe).
Calvinism is full of what-ifs and ripping texts from their context to create pretext. Its a human philosophy, of which Paul warned against.
The fatalism comparison between the two is compelling to me. Calvinism has so many areas of disagreement. My equivalence was in response to someone suggesting my rejection of Calvinism makes a universalist.
I agree with the litany you list.
Brother I know where you stand. To say someone is a universalist is a debate tactic that became codified into their rhetoric by Sproul and a few others.