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God's sovereignty
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Claim

God ordains sins, crimes, etc.

Refuting Calvinism

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Supporting 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
Supporting Calvinism

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Irresistible grace
Claim

One cannot resist / reject salvation.

Refuting Calvinism

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Supporting Calvinism

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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.

Supporting Calvinism

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God's glory
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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. ...

... Reformed theologians see that God's glory is the primary goal and end of everything which God does, including the salvation of the elect, but that in itself is not the primary goal; the glory of God is the primary goal1

Supporting Calvinism

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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.

Supporting Calvinism

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