I came across this article today and would encourage you to read it. It highlights the consequences not only of using fear to make the gospel bad news instead of good news, but also the churches’ use of thought control methods that would make a Communist dictator proud. And I felt especially moved to post [...]
As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; [...]
Suppose you and your spouse are very wealthy, but unable to have children. You decide to adopt, and visit the local orphanage. There you look over the children and a set of twin boys catches your eye. You interview them at length, and discover that though they both have had behavioral issues, they are nearly [...]
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SALVATION OFFERED TO ALL by Dave Hunt
Though Christ commands us in the Great Commission to preach the gospel to every creature, Calvinism teaches that the elect are regenerated without it and the non-elect cannot accept it. If the gospel is the power of God “to the salvation of everyone that believes” (Mark 16:15), [...]
CHAPTER ELEVEN: TURNING THE BIBLE INTO A CHARADE by Dave Hunt
No one would dispute that scripture is filled with commands for us to spread the gospel, and that the gospel is to accept Jesus as Savior because he died for our sins and rose again. But according to Calvinism, most of the people who will [...]
CHAPTER TEN: REGENERATION BEFORE FAITH AND SALVATION? by Dave Hunt
Hunt now addresses the issue of the order of salvation, commonly known in Calvinism as “regeneration before faith” (RBF). He cites Acts 16:31 which states that belief precedes salvation. But what about “regeneration”? Calvin believed that people were regenerated and justified at infant baptism, a time [...]
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