Now...he [God] arranges all things by his sovereign counsel, in such a way that individuals are born, who are doomed from the womb to certain death, and are to glorify him by their destruction. So wrote John Calvin.
To adopt the Calvinist position as reflected above, means that certain things will be stolen from you, a robbery that you can see upon a moment's reflection.
One of the first things Calvinism will rob you of is your view of people because, going by Calvin's quote, God creates disposable people, people, who, from the womb, have no hope. These become throw-away people. Why care about them?
Calvinism will take the love of God from you because Calvinism must hold that God does not love the world; He hates it. If Calvinism is true, it means that if a person you love is among the non-elect, then God did not love her, not only that, but also He never had any intention of loving her. She was nothing to Him. In fact, according to Calvinism, He will be glorified by in her eternal torture in hell.
God hates the lost, the unbeliever? What does that sound like? Listen to these two statements:
Qur’an 3:32
Say: Obey Allah and the messenger. But if they turn away, Lo! Allah loveth not the disbelievers (in His guidance).
Qur’an 3:57
“As to those who believe and work righteousness, Allah will pay them [in full] their reward; but Allah loveth not those who do wrong.”
Some Calvinists will answer by saying, "You should be more grateful for your own salvation!" But that's like saying, "As long as my heavenly mansion is secure, as long as my life is all planned out and taken care of by God, who cares about anyone else!"
But how can a believer live that way? How can he even think that such a viewpoint is all right?
We have a text that speaks to the point of God's love for the world instead of just a very minute group of special people whom He arbitrarily chose in eternity past.
It's the incident when the disciples, having been rejected by the people of a Samaritan village, asked Jesus, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”Jesus rebuked them and said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are of; for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”
If God hates the unbeliever, then what did Christ mean when He said about rebellious Jerusalem: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her young under her wings, and you were unwilling!"
If a person believes that there are disposable people in the eyes of God i.e. people created by God without hope from the womb; if a person believes that God hates the world and has no intention of loving it; if a person has concern for only his own salvation and no one else's, then how does he keep from doing what one lady did when she realized what Calvinism would rob her of?
She said, "I got into my car to head home, and it was then that I started to weep uncontrollably. I had to stop at the end of the street for about 10 minutes because I was shaking and crying and my contact lenses were getting all fogged up."
She thereafter rejected Calvinism.
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