Monday, August 23, 2010

5 Big Myths About Calvinism- or as a Calvinist named John Newton termed it- Amazing Grace

'Amazing Grace'

Here is a great article looking at 5 common myths about Biblical Calvinism, sometimes referred to as the Doctrines of Grace or Reformed theology.

Here are the five big myths:

1. CALVINISM DESTROYS EVANGELISM


2. CALVINISM APPEALS TO THE PRIDE OF MAN


3. CALVINISM STUNTS HOLINESS


4. CALVINISM TEACHES THAT MEN ARE MERELY ROBOTS


5. CALVINISM DIMINISHES THE GOD OF LOVE


Here is a money quote from the article from Charles Spurgeon....

“I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.”

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