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 planned and provided for all to be sufficiently enabled to freely seek it.

(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 horrible thing and every sinful thing is ultim