Churchwork
10-22-2008, 04:19 AM
If a calvinist is counseling a non-believer, he can't say Jesus died for him, because in calvinism, Jesus died only for the elect, not the unelected. Is this glad tidings?
Therefore, it is wrong to give the Gospel of Salvation to anyone who is not already saved according to calvinism.
Is that crazy or what?
It got me to thinking also, that calvinism does something else. It reduces the need to talk about salvation to non-believers like so many marginal Christians are close-lipped about spreading the Word.
These marginal Christians say, "it is not for them to judge who is going to saved or not saved," which is the excuse used not to give the gospel to someone because they would be treating them as and presuming they are unsaved, like a calvinist who says he can't preach the gospel with zeal to the unsaved, because God didn't die for the elect. That becomes the natural consequence of being a fake Christian and a calvinist.
So, under calvinism and those fake Christians, we discover something in common, that not giving the gospel of salvation is the consequence of false doctrine. False beliefs lead to false actions.
Therefore, it is wrong to give the Gospel of Salvation to anyone who is not already saved according to calvinism.
Is that crazy or what?
It got me to thinking also, that calvinism does something else. It reduces the need to talk about salvation to non-believers like so many marginal Christians are close-lipped about spreading the Word.
These marginal Christians say, "it is not for them to judge who is going to saved or not saved," which is the excuse used not to give the gospel to someone because they would be treating them as and presuming they are unsaved, like a calvinist who says he can't preach the gospel with zeal to the unsaved, because God didn't die for the elect. That becomes the natural consequence of being a fake Christian and a calvinist.
So, under calvinism and those fake Christians, we discover something in common, that not giving the gospel of salvation is the consequence of false doctrine. False beliefs lead to false actions.