Quote Originally Posted by James White
“When the time comes in God’s sovereign providence to bring to spiritual life each of those for whom Christ died, the Spirit of God will not only effectively accomplish that work of regeneration but that new creature in Christ will, unfailingly, believe in Jesus Christ (‘all that the Father gives Me will come to Me’). Hence, we are not saved ‘without’ faith, but at the same time, Christ’s atonement is not rendered useless and vain without the addition of libertarian free will.” (Debating Calvinism, p.191)
For a calvinist salvation comes after faith and faith comes after regeneration, but repentance for a calvinist does not come before regeneration so they don't have to repent to the cross to be regenerated even though the Bible teaches repentance first like John the Baptist taught. I get confused by double negatives or possible double negatives. Christ's atonement is NOT rendered useless WITHOUT libertarian free will...meaning, I suppose, Christ atonement is rendered useless with libertarian free will. "Arminians don't believe in libertarian free will, defined as "belief that human beings possess free will, that free will is incompatible with determinism, and that determinism is false." Arminians believe determinism is true and that free will is compatible with determinism. Determinism is defined as "every event, including human cognition and behavior, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences." This is how God can foreknow our free-choices, because God can see all possible worlds, but only actualizes the world with the free-choices in this world we have; hence, He can foresees all causal influences.
Quote Originally Posted by Richard Coords
Calvinism espouses a form of Dualism, in which God’s will is set apart as double and contradictory.

Honestly, I think that God loathes Calvinism more than most people think. That's my general feeling. I think it’s demeaning towards Christ when Calvinists (who are supposed Christians) tell him that He is a “weak and beggarly miser” (James White’s words in the youtube clip), but worse yet, Calvinism discourages Invitations and Alter Calls. Jesus said, “Come unto Me.” (Matthew 11:28) That’s an invitation. Jesus gave an Alter Call. He wants people to come to Him, and "whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:13) But when Calvinists vehemently oppose Invitations on “doctrinal grounds” that it would result in “decisional regeneration,” then they exalted theology above Christ's passion to save souls.

Worse yet, Paul said that whoever preaches “another gospel” is cursed (Galatians 1:6-9), and how does Paul define that “gospel”? See 1st Corinthians 15:3. The Gospel is telling people that Jesus "died for our sins, according to the Scriptures." That means that the “gospel” includes telling people that Jesus died for them, something that Limited Atonement flatly rejects. Sometimes I find Calvinists cleverly rewording the Gospel to state that Jesus died “for sin” (not necessarily yours, unless you are one of the elect). This is simply not the Gospel. I caught Jeff Noblit doing this at the Building Bridges Conference last year. I have the quote. Jay Adams plainly states that as a "Reformed" Christian, he does not believe in indiscriminately telling people that Jesus died for them, because he doesn't know if they are elect or not. That shows that he doesn't preach the gospel, and in fact, is opposed to it. That's why I believe that Calvinism is a false gospel that is under the curse, spoken of by the apostle Paul. So I think that God hates “Calvinism” more than most people realize. However, God loves the sinner, and although He wants for us to preach the truth, he wants for us to do it in a loving manner, because that's who He is. He is longsuffering and patient.
Excellent point, that is what dualism is: "a theory that considers reality to consist of two irreducible elements or modes; the quality or state of being dual or of having a dual nature; doctrine that the universe is under the dominion of two opposing principles one of which is good and the other evil."

Thank you Richard for your conscientious words.

“We are the Lord’s elected few, Let all the rest be damned; There’s room enough in hell for you, We won’t have heaven crammed!” (The Other Side of Calvinism, p.300) Calvinism is truly evil, full of self-exaltation and pride. Little do they realize they are on their way to Hell, helping uncrowd heaven by removing themselves from the book of life.