Arguments Against Calvinism
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Total depravity
Claim:
Humans are totally depraved and as a result, cannot receive salvation, & cannot choose to receive salvation.
Refuting Calvinism:
Irresistible grace
Claim:
One cannot resist / reject salvation.
Refuting Calvinism:
TBA (to be added)
God's will
Claim:
God's (decretive) will is always done.
Refuting Calvinism:
Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
This is not a command, it rather is a statement of what the will of God is. Was this will of God accomplished in Thessalonica? It seems it was not in Corinth.
God's glory
Claim:
God seeks his own glory.
Refuting Calvinism:
God is love. 1 John 4:8.
Love seeks not her own. 1 Cor. 13:5.
[Charity] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Therefore, god does not seek his own.
However, Calvinism posits the opposite:
... The primary, or “supreme and ultimate” end of Christ's death is the glory of God. The glory of God stands at the center in Reformed theology. ...
God's pleasure
Claim:
All that God does is for his pleasure.
Refuting Calvinism:
Proof by contradiction, of the invalidity of the claim
Rom 15:3 says Christ, who is God, pleased not himself.
If the claim is true, we have a contradiction.
Therefore the claim is not true.