Dissecting Calvinism: TULIP and Predestination.

half-truth is much more dangerous than false doctrine
Calvinism version of Predestination
1. it taught that all human actions is predestined
2. it taught that even all sins and rebellions and immoralities are NOT of human free-will, it is predestined by God's sovereign will
3. the logical consequences is that human is NOT responsible for his own action because it is NOT his own will to do whatever sins, rebellions and immoralities
4. it denies the utmost Just God that will judge the world according to their doing
5. how can God Judge Justly when human are doing what is not their own will?
6. it denies the utmost Holy God that do NOT sin
  1. Jeremiah 7:31
  2. Jeremiah 9:5
  3. Jeremiah 32:35
  4. Isaiah 53:9
  5. 1 Peter 2:22
7. biblical predestination is never about eternal salvation or damnation
Total Depravity
1. it taught that men do not have the abilities to choose to believe or repent
2. Jesus calls everyone to believe and repent
3. only hypocrites will give something that other can not take
4. it tries to make Jesus call to believe and repent as a not-so-funny-jokes
5. it accused that faith and keeping faith is men's works
6. they can not understand God's grace that give men ability to choose to believe is NOT works
  1. Ephesians 2:9
  2. Romans 3:27-28
  3. Romans 9:32
  4. Galatians 2:16
  5. Galatians 3:11-12
7. just as faith is NOT works, keeping faith is NOT works
Unconditional Election
1. it taught that some men are elected / predestined to be with God and others to be cast into eternal hell
2. Jesus is The Only Elected One
3. we are NOT the elected elites
4. it tries to take over Jesus position as The Only Elected One
5. we are elected IF and only IF we are in Jesus (conditional, corporate election)
6. do count how many times the word "IN CRHIST" repeated again and again in Ephesians 2
7. regeneration precede faith, direct contradiction with Ephesians 1:13
Limited Atonement
1. it taught that God's love is limited that He only want to save the elect and do not intend to save non-elect
2. it tries to limit God's unlimited love and grace that abundantly available to everyone
3. God want and call everyone to receive His abundant grace and love
  1. 1 Timothy 4:10
  2. 2 Peter 2:1
  3. 2 Peter 3:9
  4. Ezekiel 33
  5. 1 John 2:2
  6. John 1:12
Irresistible Grace
1. if any human try to force his/her irresistible grace upon someone else, we call it rape
2. free, gift and grace, by definitions, is always resistible
  1. Jude 1:4
3. if it's irresistible, it's not free nor gift, but obligation or forced-will
4. God loves even those who hates Him, that's why He command us to do the same., to love and bless even our enemies and He even gives us a perfect example when He is crucified. read Luke 6
5. grace is to be actively received
  1. John 1:16
  2. Acts 20:24
  3. Romans 1:5
  4. Romans 5:17
  5. Hebrews 12:28
  6. 2 Colossians 6:1
  7. Galatians 2:21
6. grace can be actively rejected
  1. Matthew 23:37
  2. Luke 13:34
Perseverance of the Saints
1. a.k.a once saved always saved (osas)
2. it taught that the saved elected elites will never lost his faith
3. this is half-truth, it denies that the saved elected have responsibility to abide in Christ and can actively resist and reject the faith he/she once believed
4. we must hold fast to the true faith, stay, abide in Christ to be and stay elected
  1. Jude 1:3
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:27
  3. John 15:6
  4. 2 John 1:9
5. once lost always lost! if we abide not, actively choose to leave the true faith we once believed, there is no second chance. (never forgot: faith and keeping faith is NOT works)
  1. John 15:6
  2. 1 John 2:24-28
  3. Hebrews 6:1-8
  4. Hebrews 10:26-27,38
  5. 2 Peter 2:20-22
Eternal Hell
1. IF some people is predestined to eternal hell, even before creation, then the eternal hell is created for those people
2. God said that originally the hell is created for the devils, not for humans
  1. Matthew 25:41