{"id":204,"date":"2010-07-21T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colemanglenn.wordpress.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2010-07-21T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:12:02","slug":"another-critique-of-calvinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/goodandtruth\/2010\/07\/another-critique-of-calvinism\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Critique of Calvinism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>There\u2019s another fine critique of Calvinism, and especially the idea of double-predestination (God pre-ordains who will go to heaven and who will go to hell), over at Evangel blog. \u00a0Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/2010\/07\/my-distaste-for-calvinism-made-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. \u00a0This one\u2019s by Adam Omelianchuk; a few months ago I linked to two similar posts on the same topic (<a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/2010\/04\/either-youre-in-or-youre-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/2010\/04\/as-i-was-saying\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>; my response <a href=\"http:\/\/colemanglenn.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/22\/sacramone-responds-more-on-predestination\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>, and general thoughts on Calvinism <a href=\"http:\/\/colemanglenn.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/28\/changes-since-swedenborg-the-rise-of-arminianism\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>) by Anthony Sacramone. \u00a0Again, it\u2019s nice to be reminded that there are plenty of Christians who do not believe that God wants people to go to hell.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s another fine critique of Calvinism, and especially the idea of double-predestination (God pre-ordains who will go to heaven and who will go to hell), over at Evangel blog. \u00a0Read it here. \u00a0This one\u2019s by Adam Omelianchuk; 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