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Healing Your Soul From Calvinism's Damage

[updated November 2023] For the 6 years that the new Calvinist pastor was at our church, subtly teaching his Calvinism, my soul was starving.  I'm not kidding; I could feel it starving.  Shriveling up dry.  It wasn't  dying -  because I have a very strong faith, and my faith is in  God , not in some preacher - but it was starved for truth and encouragement and joy, etc.  (See  "Why Is Calvinism So Dangerous?" ) And it wasn't just because of what he was teaching, but it was also because of what he  wasn't  teaching.  He hardly talked about God's love for us, how God cares about us, how He helps us in the hard times, etc.   There was no real encouragement, compassion, grace, love,  hope, etc.  At least not in my eyes.   Instead, it was often lofty, academic knowledge for the head, hardly ever comfort for the heart.  (I think he was more "professor" than "shepherd," more "this is what I think and how I do things, and so should you&quo