{"id":56187,"date":"2006-11-24T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=56187"},"modified":"2022-11-24T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T03:10:56","slug":"the-fall-of-calvinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-fall-of-calvinism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of Calvinism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>by Gene Taylor<\/p>\n<p>The five tenets of Calvinism are so tightly and logically knit together that if you accept one, you must accept them all. Conversely, if you deny one, you must deny them all.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The child of God can fall from grace (Galatians 5:4; Hebrews 6:4-6; Acts 8:9-24). The Perseverance of the Saints is not a valid doctrine.<\/li>\n<li>If a child of God can fall from grace, then God&#8217;s grace must not be irresistible so the doctrine of Irresistible Grace falls.<\/li>\n<li>And if God&#8217;s grace is not irresistible, then a person must be free to choose whether he will accept that grace or not. So the doctrine of Unconditional Election falls.<\/li>\n<li>And if a person is free to make the\u00a0<strong>good<\/strong>\u00a0choice to accept God&#8217;s grace, we cannot say that Christ died only for the elect. We must say, along with the apostle Paul (I Timothy 2:6), that He died for the sins of\u00a0<strong>all<\/strong>\u00a0people. So the doctrine of Limited Atonement collapses.<\/li>\n<li>And if a person can make a\u00a0<strong>good<\/strong>\u00a0choice, he must not be &#8220;wholly defiled in the all the faculties of soul and mind.&#8221; Therefore, the doctrine of Total Hereditary Depravity falls.<\/li>\n<li>The whole system of Calvinism comes crashing to the ground when one applies the Truth of Scripture to it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[This basic idea is from\u00a0<em>&#8220;Three Simple Scriptures,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Phil Roberts,\u00a0<em>Plano Provoker<\/em>, August 22, 1974]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gene Taylor The five tenets of Calvinism are so tightly and logically knit together that if you accept one, you must accept them all. Conversely, if you deny one, you must deny them all. The child of God can fall from grace (Galatians 5:4; Hebrews 6:4-6; Acts 8:9-24). The Perseverance of the Saints is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-56187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-calvinism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57469,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/irresistible-grace-and-matthew-2337\/","url_meta":{"origin":56187,"position":0},"title":"Irresistible Grace and Matthew 23:37","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bryan Sharp In Matthew 23:37 Christ proclaims: \"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!\" Jesus is bemoaning\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":58685,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/perseverance-of-the-saints-and-ii-peter-217\/","url_meta":{"origin":56187,"position":1},"title":"Perseverance of the Saints and II Peter 2:17","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bryan Sharp In II Peter 2:1, Peter warns of false teachers from within the Church \"who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.\" In II Peter 2:17 Peter says these same people \"are waterless springs and mists driven\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":91290,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/election\/","url_meta":{"origin":56187,"position":2},"title":"Election","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Kenneth Frazier via Sentry Magazine, Vol. 18 No. 1, 31 March 1992 John Calvin is well known for his views on election and predestination. 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Hamilton Text: Matthew 23:34-39 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John Calvin and his followers believe that God is so totally sovereign in His will that no one can change His creation. 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