The false teaching of calvinism:
Does God love you? God applies the Word of God to the hearts and live of those
He plans to save. Praying to God will not get us saved, but we will have the
assurance that God knows of our intense desire to become saved.
The above statement is wicked and
satanic, heartless, cruel and demeaning to the character of God.
“He came trembling, and fell down
before Paul and Silas…What must one do to be saved? And they said, Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” (Acts
16.29,30,31)
The Bible says God loves everyone.
He is not willing that any should perish. The calvinist says He is not willing
that any of the elect should perish. “Love is kind” (1 Cor. 13.4). How can you
predestine to eternal torment without consideration for a free-will?
“The Lord is not slack concerning
his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward [or,
“you”], not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Pet. 3.9)
Does God desire all to repent refer
to the elect who have repented to the cross already or does it refer to
everyone? No doubt, the letter is being addressed to the elect, but within the
letter what is being talked about? “Not willing that any should perish”. Since
anyone who is saved will not perish, 2 Pet. 3.9 must be talking about everyone,
not just the elect. "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow
me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither
shall any pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater
than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand" (Matt.
10.27-29).
John Calvin, to our pleasant dismay,
said this regarding 2 Pet. 3.9:
So
wonderful is His love towards mankind, that He would have them all to be saved,
and is of His own self prepared to bestow salvation on the lost. But the order
is to be noticed, that God is ready to
receive all to repentance, so that none may perish; for in these words the
way and manner of obtaining salvation is pointed out. Everyone us, therefore,
who is desirous of salvation, must learn to enter in by this way.
Even John Calvin himself disagrees
with his followers that the Greek “Pas” refers to all men that ever lived. So
how does Calvin end up twisting his sickly mind for hidden meaning of Gnostics?
He said,
But it
may be asked, If God wishes none to perish, why is it that so many do perish? To
this my answer is, that no mention here is made of
the hidden purpose of God, according
to which the reprobate are doomed to their own ruin, but only of his will as
made known to us in the gospel.
For God
there stretches forth his hand without a difference to all, but lays hold only
of those, to lead them to himself, whom he has chosen before the foundations of
the world.
John Calvin is saying that God
omitted the truth and you just have to accept it. Should we trust the
presumption of Calvin?
What is the context of 2 Peter?
Besides the saved brethren, who else is being talked about from verse 1 to 9?
“Scoffers, walking after their own lusts” (v.3). They who “willingly are
ignorant” (v.5) who “perished” (v.6), the “ungodly men” (v.7). Therefore, God is
“not willing that any should perish” (v.9) even these.
“And it came to pass in those days,
that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that
all the world should be taxed”. (Luke
2.1). “All the world” is referring to all the known world under the aspirations
of wicked men of Rome.
“Because of the hope which is laid
up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of
the gospel, which is come unto you; even as it is also in
all the world…” (Col. 1.5-6). This
does not refer to the world geographically.
“I make known the end from the
beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will
stand, and I will do all that I please.”
(Is. 46.10). Everything in God’s design is according to His will be done. That
includes those going to hell for by their own free-choice, for they reject
salvation offered to all.
“The Pharisees therefore said among
themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after
him" (John 12.19). Pharisees are not bastions of truth. Hence, their believing
the whole world is an exaggeration, yet nonetheless believed by themselves.
For the Sins of the Whole World
“And he is the propitiation for our
sins: and not for ours only, but also
for [the sins of] the whole world.” (1 John 2.2)
“And if any man shall take away from
the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the
book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in
this book.” (Rev. 22.19).
If the book of life only carries the
names of the elect, why would God make an idle threat to blot them out? God will
uphold threats that He issues. If it is just an idle threat, that would make God
a bully and a liar.
“Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their
sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast
written. And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him
will I blot out of my book.” (Ex. 32.32,33) “Add iniquity unto their iniquity:
and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the
book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.” (Ps. 69.27,28)
What is their sin? There sin was
tolerating the apostates who worship the golden calf. Are we to tolerate the
Calvinists?
“Say unto them, [As] I live, saith
the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked
turn from his way and live” (Ez. 33.11).
If God has no pleasure in the death
of the wicked, doesn’t that mean God wants all to be saved?