My Crazy Faith

Calvinists believe that God's greatest priority - His primary reason for making people - is to get more glory for Himself, and that He gets it through ordaining sin and predestining people to hell (among other things).  They think that this is why people are in hell: for God's glory, that He gets glory when He shows off His justice by punishing sin and evil.  And so He needed sin and evil and non-elect people to punish or else He couldn't fully display all His attributes to get praise and glory for them.   [But remember that - in Calvinism - people don't actually get to choose whether or not they want to believe in Jesus.  God decides for them.  He decides who won't believe and prevents them from being able to believe, and then He punishes them for not believing, even though they never had the chance or ability to believe, by God's decree.  This is a  far different  kind of "justice" than punishing people who actually deserve it, who had a ch...

  Right from the mouths of Calvinists ( bold  emphasis added):   For the reprobates: No matter how Calvinists deceptively sugarcoat it -  no matter how they try to make it  sound like  they believe that God really does love all people (by calling it "love" for God to give food and sunshine to the non-elect)... and that Jesus really did die for all people (by redefining "all" to mean "all the elect or all kinds of people" or by claiming that Jesus died for all people but only the elect can benefit from it)... and that anyone can be saved (merely meaning that anyone could be one of the elect, not that everyone has a chance to be saved)  -  remember that it always comes down to this: J.I. Packer  (" Election " ):  " Reprobation is the name given to God’s eternal decision regarding those sinners whom he has not chosen for life.  His decision is in essence a decision not to change them, as the elect are destined to be changed, but to lea...