A Question Calvinists must Answer

[Skandelon]

The irony is you need to believe complete correct doctrine pertaining to calvinism in order to be saved. That is salvation by works.

To be fair wd, he is not saying one is saved BY believing correct doctrine. He is saying that those who are REALLY saved will necessarily believe correctly, which is the only consistent view for Calvinists to hold IMO.

 

[quantumfaith]

Ok, can we now get back to the questioned posed in the OP?

Supposing Calvinism is correct, why have some professing believers, like John Wesley or CS Lewis, rejected it while others accepted it?

1. They were self-deceived and not really believers thus they couldn't accept the truth of Calvinism.

2. They weren't as smart/good as the Calvinists. Which means the Calvinists can claim something good within themselves which makes them better than another and gives them room to boast.

3. They weren't given the grace needed to understand, while Calvinists were given as extra measure of grace. God hid this truth from some of his children while revealing it to others.

Is there a fourth option?

Thanks, and my apologies

 

[quantumfaith]

I know that you are trying to get me in trouble with the powers that be here but the answer to your question is yes. But as I said it isn't because you reject Calvinism's dogma but because you reject the one true God. I could care less if you are a Calvinist or not. As I said before I have known many dead Calvinists.

Precisely. I could not have said it better myself. It is because man chooses to reject God and any revelation of him that he has received.