Calvinism

Question: In your February 2001 newsletter you stated that a sovereign God does not overcome a person’s free will in regard to justification....If I am able to believe the gospel without God regenerating me first, couldn’t I take credit for believing...?

May 1, 2002

Question: In your February 2001 newsletter you stated that a sovereign God does not overcome a person’s free will in regard to justification. But if God has not irresistibly overcome my will, why did I believe in Christ and someone else didn’t? If I am able to believe the gospel...Read more

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What a Sovereign God Cannot Do - Hunt, Dave	Feb 2001
The Works-Salvation Delusion - McMahon, T.A.	Jun 2010
The Temporal Delusion (Part 1) - McMahon, T.A.	Sep 2010
The Strange Fire Conference: Spiritual Discernment According to Calvinism - McMahon, T.A.	Feb 2014
Who Can Understand the Gospel? - Hunt, Dave	Apr 2012
The Enigma of Calvinism - McMahon, T.A.	Dec 2015
Taste and See (Part 2) - Hunt, Dave	Sep 2004
Taste and See (Part 1) - Hunt, Dave	Aug 2004
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Questions and Responses

Question: Why does Revelation 17:8 (and maybe Revelation 13:8, depending on the translation used) refer to those “whose names were not written in the book of life from the creation of the world...”?

Question: Were Adam and Eve created perfect? If so, how could they sin? If they were created with a will that could choose to sin, how could they have been perfect?

Question: To "repent" means to "change one's mind." Where do you or anyone get the idea that it means to "turn away" from sin?

Question: [TBC's] statement that John Calvin taught that Infant Baptism saves betrays a regrettable ignorance of Calvin’s beliefs....I request you publish this clarification of our Protestant, Reformed position.

Question: How can you believe both in God's foreknowledge and that man has the power of choice?

Question: I’ve been told by a Calvinist that if I’m not a Calvinist, then I’m an Arminian. As a Christian, do I have to be one or the other?

Question: Who is Jesus talking to in Matthew 7:22, 23? Nominal Christians? People who “think” they’re Christians? Born-again Christians who messed up?

Question: I think it is stunning that...the most influential Christians of the past 2,000 years have been Augustinians...

Question: Some Calvinists have argued that 2 Peter 2:12 clearly shows that there are some who are "made to be taken and destroyed." How do you explain this verse?

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Does Romans 9 Teach Calvinism?	May 2002
Why Did God Give us a Free Will?	Feb 2006
What Does It Mean to Be Born of Water?	Dec 2005
Is Foreknowledge the Same as Predestination?	Feb 2002
Has God Already Chosen Who's Going to Heaven?	May 2003
Does the Bible Teach Eternal Security?	Sep 2005

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Statement on Calvinism Draws Approval, Criticism	Jun 2012
Freedom and Accountability	Feb 2016
Calvinism: Mohler, Hankins Hold 'Conversation'	Dec 2013
Nuggets from "Whatever Happened to Heaven?" by Dave Hunt	May 2015
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