Calvinism - Mutates Like A Virus

Combating Calvinism Is Like Combating an Ever Mutating Virus

"Calvinists have to keep changing forms and defences, and alter their explanations in order to keep their untruths in place."

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1. Variants of Calvinism
2. Types of TULIPs

Just like A Virus

It is known that viruses mutate over time to become more resistant to antibiotics. So too, with Calvinism. Mutation results in various variant forms of the virus, making combating it a difficult thing. Calvinism is like a virus which is ever mutating into different forms and shades. Calvinists themselves openly admit that there are many forms of Calvinism.  There is the Extreme Calvinism, Moderate Calvinism, Full Five Point Calvinist who believe in some form of free will, and the "less than five point" calvinist. There is also the calvinist who denies he is a calvinist, but who believes in the full sovereignty and grace of God, total depravity of man. I find it difficult to accurately describe the many forms of it.

We do not know which  form of Calvinism we can be attacked with, or by at any one time. And it is therefore difficult to be ready at all times to put up a ready defence when we encounter an attack.

A Recent Mutation

John G. Reisinger , a calvinist, and a professional one I suppose, displays an example of that devious mutational ability in a web article. This writer started off by agreeing with what are apparently non-calvinst positions, i.e.,

•  Point One, man must repent to be saved,
• Point Two , anyone who repents will be saved,
• Point Three:  Repentance and faith are not vicarious but are the free acts of men.

Do you see the mutation that has taken place? From man being unable to repent, he has agreed that man  can, and mst repent after all! . From unconditional election, it has mutated to ANYONE who repents will be saved, making it sound like unconditional election is no longer there!  From NO FREE WILL, it has mutated to "Repentance and faith are not vicarious but are FREE ACTS of men, playing on the word FREE to make it sound like there is some form of free will after all!!.

Devious, devious, devious! And when you come to Point Four, without any kaboom, he smoothly slipped back into the true Calvinist form again. By then, the unwary reader's defences has already been disarmed by the apparent admissions of free will, and no more unconditional election. And he smoothly proclaims that what he wrote was not to prove that there is free will, nor he agreed that total depravity does not mean total inability and he goes on to propose that the totally depraved man still needs the Holy Spirit to regenerate him before he can exercise the free acts to repent and show faith! Oh, really? What a quick sleight of the hand act! What a slick lawyer's play with words with the bait and switch tactic. Slick! Sly! Make it look like he agrees with you and slickly continue stating the standard calvinism after making it look like he does not agree with it with the fist three points.  By the time he reached point six, hardcore calvinist identifiers are all out in the open, just like a virus which can never change its identifiers,  Viruses can only mutate to disguise itself, but the markers remain.  Similarly, Calvinism mutates to disguise itself, but the markers remain. Devious, even  diabolical.

A further Mutation. It is " There is free will" now, but to choose evil.

As I read what Reisinger wrote, I noted a further mutation in their theoglogy.  A new mutated defence had evolved in addition to the above, which is  to counter the established scriptural antidote against it. You see,  Calvinism had always stood firmly that man has NO free will at all. Zero!  God in His sovereignty predestined everything in and for him. But this had not stood up well at all in the face of scriptures.  Scriptures reveal that man does have the ability to choose after all. In Deut 30:19 Moses had told the people to choose, i.e. they have the free will to choose. In Joshua 20:15, Joshua told the people to CHOOSE between God and other gods. Yes, they can choose after all. And in 1 King18:21 Elijah told the people to CHOOSE. They do have the freedom, free will if you will to decide but they chose to keep silent. Calvinists are stumped by these. Still are.

A new solution needed to evolve. Reisinger provided it. Now it is this. God's sovereignty decides everything. But man has free will ( Oooops!) But it is free will to choose evil, not choose God's side. See how devious is their new argument?  That is how Reisinger has put it.

GOOD TRY. It is a trick argument. God is still sovereign in an absolute way, but man has some free will after all. See the compromise Reisinger made worded to sound like the stand is still the same? It is a trick argument.  A trick argument remains just that. A trick. And a trick is used to deceive, else it is not termed a trick.


So, why do Calvinists need to resort to these slick and sly methods of defence? Is it not because they have realized that their so-called truths are hard to defend, and promote? Would you need to compromise and disguise the appearances of your truths if your truths can stand up to scrutiny? Why do you resort to such hidden dagger methods to attack? WHY?


Jesus said in John 8:32 : And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.









 

The Evil That Is Called Calvinism

Calvinism's "Sovereignty of God":

 Praising  and Blaspheming  God With One Fell Breath

See also: 

Refuting"Total Depravity" in Calvinism

I just got whacked by a stroke on 13^th August, 2014. I am recovering and typing with more difficulty than usual, trying to get my fingers to obey my brain to type out in the proper sequence of the spelling. But praise the Lord, I am typing, and very well too. And that, with the neurosurgeon expressing his wonder why I am still mobile at all after he had looked at the MRI picture of my brain.  The Lord is indeed merciful and full of grace to me. This life of mine is no longer mine, but His; to serve His will and purpose. And one of His purposes for my time on this earth is to glorify Him and His truth. For God is truth. Amen.

The Devil Wants To Grind His Axe Against God

The bible tells us that God desires every (EVERY, not some) man to be saved. God has revealed His truth to us in order that ALL (not some, not just the elected ones ) who believe may be saved. But the bible also reveals that Satan has been working against God, for the devil had wanted to "be like the most high” and, God in His mercy to satan kicked him out of the kingdom of God instead of putting him out of existence. The devil still wants to be like God, and he is not showing any appreciation for God’s mercy upon him. Instead, he is doing all that he can, using all means he can devise, to draw mankind away from God, and in his spitefulness, to demean God along the way.

Casting Doubts Against The Truth of God.

There are many evils against the truth of God. They come in all forms; in the forms of Gnosticism, agnosticism, or other religions that deny the deity of Jesus, who is God Himself who came in the flesh to this earth 2000 years ago. These are movements which are out to prevent as many of the human race as is possible from coming to Jesus to be saved. There are also feigned Christian movements like Jehovah Witnesses and the Mormons, and hundreds of so called churches which put on the Christian label while a gospel message which is very different from that which Jesus taught, which will keep their followers on the original road to hell. Feigned Christianity will  preach a different Jesus,too;  a Jesus who is essentially different from the one revealed in the bible. They often preach also a different spirit which is not the Holy Spirit  shown to us in the bible. Does not 2Co 11:4 warn of us of these people who will be teaching about another Jesus in order to deceive?

And, there are also the so called "intellectuals", who call themselves atheists, new agers, evolutionists who disguise themselves as “scientists” ( for there is true science, and also pseudo-science ) who often succeed in misleading those whose hearts are prideful of themselves, by making themselves and others think that belief  in God, or the word of God would turn them into morons. And thus, they say there is no god.  For truly, the bible has also explained long before of people “who, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools ….”. For does not the bible also record “The fool has said in his heart there is no God”?

Calvinism – The Evil That Works From Within.

And there is Calvinism, the most evil and deceiving of them all, which is ominously disguised as a mainstream God-loving, God-praising doctrine, but which in reality backstabs God even as it praises and defends the glory and sovereignty of God. There is nothing more wicked than that. The Chinese call this kind of approach yinxian 阴险, i..e. sinister, treacherous and insidious wickedness. There is nothing more wicked as this, as with Judas, who feigned love and discipleship of Jesus, with the intent only to betray the Him. If you claim to be a Calvinist, you are such a one. But, you will likely in one way or another attempt to deny that you are really a full Calvinist. Now, why do you have to make yourself sound less than calvinist? Does it not reveal that somewhere in your heart, you have sensed there is  evil in Calvinism? Does calling yourself a lesser evil make you ok before the holy God that you attack?

While others attack Christianity from the outside, Calvinism works from within disguised as a mainstream teaching.  

Jesus said to the Jews in Joh 8:44  "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning."  Who is a John Calvin but one who murdered other Christians in the name of Jesus Christ and His truth! For Calvin had ordered the death of Michael Servetus who had disagreed with his teachings. Murder in the name of Jesus? Oh, my! Did Jesus say to His followers “Kill them that disagree with you”? Did Jesus say “Force them to believe” ? Do you remember what happened in Luke 9:54? There, a Samaritan village refused to receive Jesus, and His disciples James and John suggested "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?" Did Jesus agree to call down fire to kill the villagers? No! Jesus rebuked the two of them for the suggestion. Killing of unbelievers is the way of the devil. Do you think Calvin, who ordered the death of someone who disagreed with his teachings, was a follower of Jesus or a follower of satan?   And you,  are a Calvinist, a self-professed follower of one who murders others in the name of the Lord? No wonder you people so often need to find a reason to deny that you are a “Full Calvinist”!. For truly, you are of the devil, your father for he was a murderer!

How Does Calvinism Praise, Worship and Demean God In One Fell Breath?

Here’s how. Calvinism stresses the sovereignty of God very highly, to the extent that God alone make all decisions, including salvation. This is praising God. Calvinism also teaches the incomparable and irresistible grace of God. This is honoring God’s very nature. And have you noticed that in their explanation of God’s great sovereignty and grace, Calvinists also say that God ELECTS those He wants to save, meaning God CHOOSES only some, not all to be saved? They say, it is God’s absolute right to choose, He is sovereign, and you cannot question it. But you have not noticed that the reverse side of what they are saying is that GOD DOES NOT CHOOSE TO SAVE OTHERS, have you?  What the Calvinists are also saying, which they will also deny at the same time are these: ….

1) Calvinists Say That God is NOT ALL MERCIFUL.

That is stabbing the character and nature of God! God has revealed that He wants to save ALL not some.  Does not scriptures say that God desires ALL men to be saved? Does not ALL in 1Ti 2:4 mean ALL? Does not 2Pe 3:9 say that God is NOT WILLING THAT ANYONE should perish, i.e. not even one? Trust the Calvinists to redefine the word “all” to you. They have to, in order to get their mangled doctrine look acceptable to some of you. They are also implying that God does not know what He is talking about. When God says ALL, God does not know what all means…. Calvinists know better.

2) Calvinists Say That God is NOT A JUST GOD

People who reject the gospel are those who are not chosen by God. Because they were not chosen in the first place, even if they want to receive the gospel, they are incapable of doing so, because God did not enable them to do so! But God will judge them as fit for hell anyway. Are they not portraying to you that God is unjust. God did not choose them to be saved, and therefore they are not able to accept the gospel you preached to them, but God judge them anyway. Is that not something that you would expect the satan to tell you? Yes, Calvinism is satanic, deviously so.

Can you now see how the marks of the devil in the Calvinist approach of attacking God with their sugar-coated praises? Praise and stab …. All done at the same time. WOW! Truly evil~!

Conclusion

Am I saying that all Calvinists be not saved? No. Let me be very clear on this. We are saved by grace through faith in the completed work of Jesus on the cross, and that faith, if genuine will result in visible fruits of the spirit in our daily living. We are not saved by how cleverly we understand the nature of God. We can insult Jesus, but there is forgiveness for that. But I remember that Jesus said there is no forgiveness in this live or thereafter, for blaspheming the Holy Spirit. So what kind of a Calvinist are you? The sinning Calvinist or the blur-blur one who happens to love the praises of men more than God?

For a fact, there are many different shades of Calvinists. Some are innocent followers who do not even know that they are praising and demeaning God at the same time, but they have followed their leaders’ teachings because they love the praises of men more than the praises of God. There are others who follow Calvinist teachings for the reason that the Calvin teaching of eternal security offers them some ambiguous leeway to knowingly continue living in sin and tapping on the inexhaustible grace of God. This group I am sure, will not be saved.

Some leaders are Calvinists because they realize that the more subtle meanings inside Calvinism offers room for scripture twisting to draw in those looking for a more liberal lifestyle, and they can build a bigger membership number, and a bigger membership means $imply more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!

And so, if you have been pouting Calvinist teachings, ask yourself about your motives for being so. If you know you have unknowingly sinned against a holy God, know also that He is a merciful God. Have faith, confess and ask for His forgiveness. And don’t you believe that faith is works and therefore you should not work for your salvation. That, is another Calvinist lie.

I do not know if you have blasphemed the Holy Spirit with your Calvinist insults. If you have, there is no point praying for it, for the Jesus has said there is no forgiveness for blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, and the bible says in 1Jn 5:16 ….There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

The truth is often unpleasant, isn't it?

For you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free: John 8:32