My Crazy Faith

Here are some new comments  which were recently added to the Soteriology 101 post  Calvinism Obscures the Simple Gospel .  It's kinda a  friendly "debate" among non-Calvinists about if Calvinism is merely a warped version of the true gospel or if it's a false gospel.   (These are lightly edited for clarity.) Kay made this comment: In my opinion, Calvinism is a  different  gospel, not [merely] obscuring the gospel.   How can [Calvinists] believe what they do and still be considered the true gospel?      Brian   (non-Calvinist) replied: Welcome Kay!  Thank you for the question.  Here is my take for what it is worth.  Calvinism, imo, has a deformed view of the true gospel, but still the true gospel. Calvinism’s Gospel – God has provided salvation sufficiently for all and planned for it to be “freely” and irresistibly accepted by some. NT Gospel – God has provided salvation sufficiently for all and pla...

(Say that five times fast!) An excerpt from my post  "A Crash Course in Calvinism (Calvinist quotes)"  showing how John Piper -  and all Calvinists  - misunderstand and incorrectly use Proverbs to support their bad theology, even though Proverbs was never meant to be taken as hard-core, bottom-line theology through which to filter and reinterpret the rest of the Bible, the clear and easily-understood verses which do not support Calvinism  [my comments are in purple, and I've added some that aren't in the original post] :  John Piper  (from his article  “Has G od Predetermined Every Tiny Detail in the Universe, Including Sin?” ) says :   “Has God predetermined   every tiny detail in the universe, such as dust particles in the air and  all of our besetting sins?  Yes… Now the reason I believe that is because the Bible says, “The dice are thrown in the lap, and every decision is from the Lord” ( Proverbs 16:33* )… Yes, every horri...