My Crazy Faith

  [In this series, I'm breaking the long post   "Why is Calvinism so dangerous?"   into bite-sized pieces.] 11. The Bible says ...  God is glorified when people praise Him, tr ust Him, believe in Him, preach the good news, obey Him, etc. Psalm 29:1-2, 86:12,96, 115:1-  glorify  God for His lovingkindness and truth,  Isaiah 42:12, Matthew 5:16, John 15:8,  Romans 15:9 -  glorify Him for His mercy,  1 Cor. 10:31,  2 Cor. 4:15-  spreading  grace and thanksgiving glorifies God,  2 Cor. 9:13, 2 Thess. 1:11-12 But Calvinism says ...  It glorifies God to cause sin and unbelief and to send people to hell.  Find me one verse that says this!!!  Just one!!! This is simply Calvinists trying to  find a "good" explanation for why Calvi-god causes sin, evil, and  predestines people to hell: It's " for his glory," and so that makes it okay.  They start with their erroneous beliefs, build their view of God on top of it, and then find ways to make their erroneous be

In the last post  of this series, we looked at the danger of underestimating ourselves and overestimating Satan.  Today let's look at the reverse: overestimating ourselves and underestimating Satan.  (This will be a little scattered because there's several angles I want to look at this from.)   While we shouldn't think Satan has more power than he does, we also shouldn't think he has less.  He  is the ruler, the "prince," of this world right now and has been given a lot of leeway (by God's permission) to move around and cause trouble.  Yes, God is still in control over Satan and has him on a leash, but he's still allowed to cause an enormous amount of pain and damage (just look at the world around us, maybe even your own lives).  So may we never be flippant about him or ignorant of his schemes and power.    Here are a handful of verses about Satan/demons (what he's called, what he does, what he's capable of): Satan is called "the prince of