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发帖数: 3781 | 1 Here we confront a major problem with Calvinism: its denial of God's infinit
e love for all. That God would choose to save only a select few and leave th
e rest to suffer eternal damnation would be contrary to His very nature of i
nfinite love and mercy as the Bible presents Him, and as shall be documented
in the process of examining Calvinism from Scripture.
Incredibly, however, the very damnation of perhaps billions is said by the C
alvinist to have been foreordained from eternity past because it pleases and
glorifies God! The Westminster Confession of Faith, paraphrasing Calvin him
self, declares:
By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angel
s are predestinated unto everlasting life; and others foreordained to everla
sting death .... Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God ...
hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory ... to the praise of his glorio
us grace .... The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearc
hable counsel of his own will . . . for the glory of his sovereign power ove
r his creatures ... to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to t
he praise of his glorious justice. 25
Even Sproul admits, "If some people are not elected unto salvation then it w
ould seem that God is not at all that loving toward them. Further. it seems
that it would have been more loving of God not to have allowed them to be bo
rn.
That may indeed be the case." 26 God's love, however, is infinite and perfec
t. It is therefore an oxymoron to suggest that God was ever toward anyone "n
ot all that loving" and might "have been more loving." No Calvinist has ever
satisfactorily explained such lack of love with which God is charged. Who c
ould fail to be gravely concerned for this gross misrepresentation of our lo
ving God!
The great Apostle Paul could declare unequivocally, "I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ!" It almost sounds as though Sproul has some reservations
concerning the gospel according to Calvinism. If the gospel is not good news
to everyone, but only to the elect, is that cause for us to be ashamed of a
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