Featured Video: Why James White Is Sick of The Calvinist Club

Anti-Calvinists are usually also ignorant of church history, that the basic doctrines of Calvinism were already taught by Augustine against Pelagius and Luther against Rome. The doctrines we know today as “Calvinism” are only called that because it was John Calvin who popularized them.



This ignorance, however, is no excuse for Calvinists to act like they are somehow superior to non-Calvinists. It will only further harden people against doctrines that man, in his natural state, already resists.

 

For those looking for a brief, Biblical defense of the five points of Calvinism, here is the free ebook of Five Points: Towards a Deeper Experience of God’s Grace by John Piper.
https://document.desiringgod.org/five-points-en.pdf?ts=1446647340

John Piper strikes me as an example of a humble Calvinist.

 

As R.C. Sproul here explained, Arminians are saved and therefore our brothers in Christ, despite their doctrinal inconsistences:

I have no reason to doubt the salvation of Leighton Flowers. I am bothered by how often he displays that, despite claiming to be a former Calvinist, he never understood Calvinism in the first place.

Nominal Calvinists who don't understand the Bible and church history very well will be fooled by Dr. Flowers' claims like Augustine invented the doctrine of unconditional election due to the influence of Manicheism, which is unfortunate.

I don't believe that Dr. Flowers deliberately lies about Calvinism and its doctrinal foundations but instead that, for whatever reason, he's embittered toward Calvinism, thus compromising his objectivity.

 

I think I finally understand the doctrine of limited atonement. The atonement is limited, not in its power, but in its application.

Jesus died only for those who would believe in Him, not for those who would reject Him. There are numerous passages in the New Testament which teach this.

Limited atonement doesn't mean that those who sincerely desire to be saved will be turned away. Instead, it means that not a drop of Jesus' blood was shed in vain.



Since we don't know the identity of God's elect, we are to preach the Gospel indiscriminately, for it's the hearing of the Gospel by which faith is awakened in the elect:



If you really care about your salvation, that's a sign that you are among the elect.

I donate to India National Inland Mission. Founded by a former Hindu, the organization plants churches throughout India, while operating an orphanage and Bible college:

https://briinstitute.com/mw/ministry.php?ein=956116077

Because of God’s enabling grace acting in His elect, I have faith that my support to foreign missions will be fruitful.