Featured Calvinism is Internally Inconsistent

No that is not what that means.

 

Strawman

 

Ordained: order or decree (something) officially Oxford Dictionary

So with that definition in mind please tell us what "God has freely
and unchangeably ordained whatever happens." means to you in regard to the sins a man commits

 

I think General and low Calvinism is indeed plagued with contradictions and mishandling Scripture. High Calvinism does not have that problem.

 

Nice and informative observation. Thus "High Calvinism" is openly unbiblical whereas the other presentations are deceptively unbiblical and inherently inconsistent.

 

Synonyms for ordain
Synonyms

• destine,
• doom,
• fate,
• foredoom,
• foreordain,
• predestine,
• predetermine,
• preordain

: destine, foreordain It is futile to try to avoid what destiny has ordained.

 

It's interesting how this thread and non-reformed avoid the Bible and simply comment on some unspecified "high" or "low" Calvinism with no specificity. I take the lack of specificity to be people who like to whine with no substance to their whining.

 

So this is what God means when he says:
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding. God has now revealed to us his mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill his own good pleasure. And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan. God’s purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God. And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.
~ Ephesians 1:4-14

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.
~ Romans 8:28-30

How terrible to be predestined by God's grace to reconciliation and redemption.

Note: Every person in rebellion to God rejoices in their own imagination that they have fought God off. They don't even realize that God has given them over to their own lusts.
Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles. So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved. Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.
~ Romans 1:21-32

 

Yet another copy and paste of huge amounts of non-germane verbiage.

Ordained means predestined. Full Stop

According to inconsistent Calvinism, God predestined our each and every sin, yet is not the cause of our each and every sin. I kid you not...

 

No scripture, just opinion from people who want to be in control. Got it.

 

LOL, I quote scripture and Van calls it "non-germane verbiage." I cannot make up how funny that is. Van, I laughed out loud.

According to Van's twisted grasp of Calvinism "God predestined our each and every sin, yet is not the cause of our each and every sin."
I kid you not, that's what Van imagines Calvinists say.
Van, are you aware that your imagination isn't coming from God? You have bought into a lie from hell and you present it here to us as though it were truth.

 

Except the reformed tradition is derived from Scripture, nothing to reconcile.

 

Exactly people like @Van @SavedByGrace @Guido and @Eternally Grateful and @Silverhair have no idea what Calvinism actually is.

 

Yet another pile of non-germane verbiage attacking me and avoiding these facts:
1) I post published Calvinist doctrine, not the frequent disavowals of the doctrine posted by deceit.
2) When the topic is "A" posting scripture whose topic is "B" the scripture is non-germane.
3) Ever notice how often Calvinists post "that is not what Calvinism claims" but do not offer the correct view?

 

Ah, see you think you published Calvinist doctrine. But really, you posted Van's caricature of Calvinist doctrine which isn't Calvinist doctrine at all. Some would call it strawman.

 

Well, by your reasoning here, any organizing of thought from scripture cannot be understood from scripture. None of the views could therefore be anything but philosophy with no scripture. I guess this explains Jonnyianism as well.