Jerry Shugart
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Today one of the chief spokesmen for the Reformed view is Dr. R.C. Sproul and he says the following:
Sproul says that the people not chosen for salvation are left "to suffer the consequences of their sins, eternal punishment in hell."
According to Calvinism all me are made opposite to all good and wholly inclined to all evil":
If the Calvinists are right then God punishes mankind when they do the very things which He desgined them to do:
Here is one of the verses which the Calvinists misinterpret in order to support their false teaching in regard to Original Sin:
Sir Robert Anderson writes:
The Calvinists are so blind that they cannot see that their teaching is a direct frontal assult on God's righteousness!
"From all eternity God decided to save some members of the human race and to let the rest of the human race perish. God made a choice--he chose some individuals to be saved unto everlasting blessedness in heaven, and he chose others to pass over, allowing them to suffer the consequences of their sins, eternal punishment in hell" [emphasis mine] (R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?[Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2005], 141).
Sproul says that the people not chosen for salvation are left "to suffer the consequences of their sins, eternal punishment in hell."
According to Calvinism all me are made opposite to all good and wholly inclined to all evil":
"From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions" [emphasis added] (The Westminster Confession of Faith; VI/4).
If the Calvinists are right then God punishes mankind when they do the very things which He desgined them to do:
"...the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds...unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil:" (Ro.2:5-6,8-9).
Here is one of the verses which the Calvinists misinterpret in order to support their false teaching in regard to Original Sin:
"They that are in the flesh cannot please God" (Ro.8:8).
Sir Robert Anderson writes:
"This verse is used to support the dogma that, because of the Fall, man's nature is so utterly depraved that he is incapable of leading a moral and upright life. As the Westminster Divines express it, 'We are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good.' This theology obviously impugns the righteousness of God in punishing men for their sins. In fact, it represents Him as a tyrant who punishes the lame for limping and the blind for losing their way" (Anderson, Misundersood Texts of the New Testament [Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1991], 75).
The Calvinists are so blind that they cannot see that their teaching is a direct frontal assult on God's righteousness!