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Anthony Sacramone of the Evangel blog at First Things<\/em> has a great post<\/a> that tears down the Calvinist doctrine of double-predestination (i.e. that God chose some people to be born for heaven and some for hell and there\u2019s nothing anyone can do about \u2013 God grants faith to some people, and if you\u2019re not one of the lucky few, you\u2019re out of luck). \u00a0Here\u2019s an excerpt that I particularly like:<\/p>\n

If Calvinism, especially in its supralapsarian form\u2014which argues that God foreordained the eternal fates of humans not yet created in a world not yet created, never mind fallen\u2014is true, then most of us are lost, and not just because, in the words of Dirty Harry, we don\u2019t feel particularly lucky, but because we are asked to love a monster. A deity who out Hitler\u2019s Hitler in a blood-thirsty self-preening is too repellant to contemplate, never mind adore. Especially one whose obsession with his own glory reduces every person to nothing more than an adornment. If this is true, let\u2019s please stop talking about the sanctity of human life. In this horrific scheme, there is nothing more expendable than a human being. \u201cI need more glory\u2014throw another baby on the barby!\u201d (Whether non-elect infants go to hell has been a long-fought controversy within the Reformed world, admittedly, but there\u2019s nothing it its confessions or theology that seriously argues against it.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pretty well sums up my thoughts on the idea of a God who would condemn most people to hell but save a few \u201cfor His own glory.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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