Arguments against Calvinism - Scriptures
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Rom 8:7-8 | Rom 8:7-8 does not support Calvinism. |
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John 6:37 | John 6:37 does not support Calvinism. |
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Acts 18:6 | Acts 18:6 helps show Acts 13:48 does not support Calvinism. |
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Rev 13:8, 17:8 | Rev 13:8 & Rev 17:8 do not support Calvinism. |
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Proverbs 16:4 | Proverbs 16:4 does not support Calvinism. |
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Jude 1:4 | Jude 1:4 does not support Calvinism. |
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Eph 1:4 | Eph 1:4 does not support Calvinism. |
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Romans 3 | Romans 3 does not support Calvinism. |
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Acts 2:40 | Acts 2:40 does not support Calvinism. |
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Acts 13:48 | Acts 13:48 does not support Calvinism. |
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Romans 9 | Romans 9 does not support Calvinism. |
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John 6:44 | John 6:44 does not support Calvinism. |
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Romans 9:32 | Romans 9:32 proves that faith is not a work. |
We see in Romans 9:32 that works are not faith. |
Romans 4:5 | Romans 4:5 proves that faith is not a work. |
In the above scripture we see that the person who has faith, who believes, is not performing a work. Thus, faith is not a work. |
John 9:3 | John 9:3 does not teach that God causes sickness, nor does it teach that God is glorified by sickness. |
In John 9:3 we read the following, regarding a man born blind:
We must recall that punctuation was not in the original. I put a period in the verse, as in the quote below. I take the verse to mean this:
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Synergism - monergism & 1 Cor 1:21 | Synergism and monergism represent a false dichotomy, not found in scripture. |
Synergism claims God is helped by man to do something, in particular, salvation. Monergism claims God does it all - salvation - by himself. Man's free choice to receive Christ as savior, is considered by Calvinism as synergism - man helping God out. However, God does all the saving. God just chose to do all the saving for certain people. Calvinists claim God does choose to (or has chosen to) save only certain people. On the other hand, God himself claims he chose to save certain people also - specifically, those people that believe. |
2 Pet 3:9 | 2 Pet 3:9 indicates God's will is that all be saved. |
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1 Tim 2:1-6 | 1 Tim 2:1-6 indicates that limited atonement is false. |
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Ezekiel 33:11 | Ezekiel 33:11 argues against Calvinism. |
Calvinism claims that God's pleasure is that the wicked are damned. This is directly contradicted by Ezekiel 33:11:
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Rom 10:21 | Rom 10:21 refutes Calvinism / unconditional election. |
The attitude of God in this scripture is that God makes a genuine offer to people, who reject God. If even a single one of those people fail to eventually get saved, then this genuine offer was made to more than just the "elect." If this one person does not get saved, but the offer was made to him, then this person could have gotten saved - otherwise the offer was not genuine. |