11. Calvinism Turns the Bible into a Charade
Near the close of Dave Hunt's opening statement about the charade that Calvinism is, Hunt quotes John Calvin (315):
Calvin presents God as mocking the nonelect: "There is a universal call, by which God through the external preaching of the word invites all men alike, even those for whom he designs the call to be a savour of death, and the ground of a severer condemnation."20 He calls through the gospel even those He has predestined to eternal doom? Calls them to what? Calvin's God is apparently taunting the nonelect with the gospel, offering a salvation He won't let them have. (Calvin, Institutes, III: xxiv 7)
John Calvin was one sick bastard, if I am allowed to describe not only how I feel but what I know about this man and James White. No wonder why many Calvinists try to distance themselves from John Calvin yet James White grabs hold of him even tighter. God invites "all men" even those God made and designed for death [Hell]? How can you invite someone when they are not given the grace to be able to respond? You go to be one sick bastard to think like that! Death is a "savour"? What sweet savour that men are given no grace or any opportunity for salvation! Glory be to God! If only more people would be called to the sweet "savour of death" for Hell ("ground of severer condemnation").
Such abusive behavior, taunting, is like calling a puppy to come to you but with a stick stabbing at it as it comes to you then calling it again and poking it yet again. As you see the tears run down the puppy's eyes by the unloving master, are we not all sickened by White and Calvin? This gives glory to the master? We are left with thoughts of how Satan conducts himself and finds his pawns in men like James White and John Calvin. These sick bastards will never give their lives to Christ and thus will enjoy the sweet savour of death and severer condemnation because they refuse to repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated. Sincerely ask yourself, have you ever met a person as far-gone as these two who ever repented and turned from Calvinism to give their lives to Christ? Me neither.
White quotes Calvin regarding 1 Tim. 2.1-4: "God has a heart the salvation of all, because he invites all to the acknowledgement of his truth.... All those to whom the gospel is addressed are invited to the hope of eternal life." (White, Potter's Freedom, 259) Hunt correctly points out reasonably as any reasonable person would understandably read, "How can those predestined to eternal doom be 'invited to the hope of eternal life'? What PERVERSENESS on Calvin's part to claim that 'by the Gospel the mercy of God is offered' to those he declares 'are excluded from access to life'!" Such callousness is chilling! (Calvin, Institutes, III: xxiv 7)
The Bible says be "not doubletongued" (1 Tim. 3.8). Don't say, I want to save all because I invite all but don't give you the enablement to be able to respond. Don't say, salvation is "for all" and then turn around in the same breath, changing the mean of "all" to actually mean "all those to whom the gospel is addressed are invited." Are there some whom are addressed that are invited in Calvinism that refuse the invitation? Apparently not. And what sort of invitation is that anyway when they are irresistibly made to hope and receive eternal life and that there is no way they can refuse this alleged invitation? I picture James White inviting his wife to dinner, but she says, "No thank you!" Then he grabs her, ties her hands behind her back and pulls her out to the car then says to her, if you make a scene in the restaurant, he'll kill their children. What a wonderful invitation. Is that what's it coming to in his life? Is God going to have to harden the Pharaoh's heart further because of the first active instance hardening was by James White himself?