My Crazy Faith

[In this series, I'm breaking the long post   "Why is Calvinism so dangerous?"   into bite-sized pieces.] 13. (Hang in there, almost done!)  And lastly, I think the Bible holds God's wrath, glory, and love in balance.  But Calvinism overemphasizes God's wrath/glory and underemphasizes His love.   As I said, they believe God doesn't even really love all people, only the elect.  They believe it brings God glory to predestine most people to hell, to cause people to be unbelievers so that He can get glory for exercising His justice/wrath against sin.  And since it's about His glory, we just have to accept this Calvinist teaching.  Because we are too tiny to understand it.   ( But  of course  we can't understand it.   You can't understand an unbiblical, imbalanced, illogical, contradictory theology!) Yes, God's glory should be held up high.  The highest.  But to do this, Calvinists reduce humans too low, lower than what God says.  They base our valu

I updated the post on sovereignty in the "Why is Calvinism so dangerous?" series.   I added a few links to  posts on how Calvinists manipulate people and spread Calvinism ( "Saint PJs Deceptions and Manipulations"   and  "MacArthur's Manipulations"  and  "A not-so-imaginary conversation with a Calvinist"  and  "Calvinism 101..." ). And then I added this:  Update May 2023:  I'm gonna expand a little here (okay, a lot) to compare Calvinism's view of sovereignty against the Bible's view, so you can see how wrong Calvinists are.  (This will include a bit of what I already said.) If God is in control over everything, it must mean that He controls everything (even people’s decisions and sins), that He always does everything He wants and that everything that happens is because He preplanned/wanted/caused it to happen.    So when people sin or end up in hell, it’s because He willed it, wanted it, planned it, and caused it.  And