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The Folly of Doing Theology in an Echo Chamber: A Thorough Examination of Piper’s “Two-Wills of God” View
The Folly of Doing Theology in an Echo Chamber: A Thorough Examination of Piper’s “Two Wills of God” View By Strider MTB *Permission is freely granted to share this article in its entirety or in portions. My friends call me … Continue reading
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Tagged Arminian free-will defended, Biblical sovereignty, Calvinism, Calvinism and evil, Calvinism and sovereignty, Calvinism Inconsistency, Calvinism theodicy, calvinism vs. arminianism, Critiquing John Piper, Dark side of Calvinism, debate on Calvinism, Debating Arminian theology vs. Calvinism, debunking Calvinism, Does God have two wills?, God’s will of command and will of decree, John Piper, John Piper God has two wills, Rebutting John Piper’s two wills of God, Responding to John Piper’s God’s two wills, Why John Piper is wrong
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God’s Exploitation of the Devil’s “Thorns”
God’s sovereignty should never be seen as unilaterally determining or decreeing the evil actions or intentions of free agents (human or demonic) before the foundation of the world. Rather God’s sovereignty is best understood as exploiting the evil actions and … Continue reading
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A Critique of John Piper’s Theodicy: Calvinism’s Cognitive Dissonance. Part 4
John Piper, a passionate preacher much to be admired in many ways, expends no small amount of effort zealously seeking to discredit Arminianism or any belief he feels threatens divine truth–or at least his version of it. Curiously no matter … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvinism and evil, Calvinism ordaining evil, Calvinism theodicy, calvinism vs. arminianism, Critiquing John Piper, Dark side of Calvinism, debunking Calvinism, debunking John Piper, defending arminianism, John Piper theodicy, Problems with Calvinism, Refuting Calvinism, refuting John Piper
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A Critique of John Piper’s Theodicy: Are We God’s Evil Contract Assassins? Part 3
In my last post I ended saying that the key error of the Piper Theodicy is assuming that all acts—including all acts of moral evil are intended acts by the divine will via God’s exhaustive decrees. Rather than stop at the biblical … Continue reading
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Tagged Arminian free-will defended, Calvinism and evil, Calvinism debunked, calvinism vs. arminianism, Calvinism's Inconsistency, Critiquing John Piper Theology, Dark side of Calvinism, Debating Arminian theology vs. Calvinism, Debunking John Piper Calvinism, Defending free-will against Calvinism, Jonathan Edwards theology
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A Critique of John Piper’s Theodicy: “Is God Morally Color-Blind?” Part 2
If anyone has read the works of John Piper, Jonathan Edwards or any mainstream Calvinist you know that they are committed to the view that God’s sovereignty means God has exhaustively decreed every act of men (and demons), such that … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvinism and evil, Calvinism debunked, Calvinism theodicy, calvinism vs. arminianism, Calvinism's Inconsistency, Critiquing John Piper, Dark side of Calvinism, Debating Arminian theology vs. Calvinism, defending arminianism, free-will, John Piper and Calvinism, John Piper quotes
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A Critique of John Piper’s Theodicy: Purposing Evil for the Purpose of Good? Part 1
John Piper is a man devoted to God with a genuine desire to extol God’s glory. That is not in dispute. What is in dispute is Piper’s claim that his theodicy extol’s God glory. The following critique will seek to … Continue reading
Calvinist Quotes on God Determining All Evil
Calvinism is a belief in meticulious divine determinism over every thought, choice and event throughout human history–and according to John Piper this includes every one of your personal, besetting sins (quote below). Just think about the insidious implications of such … Continue reading
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Tagged against calvinism, against reformed theology, Calvinism and evil, Calvinism and Sin, Calvinism debunked, Calvinism is evil, Calvinism is heresy, Calvinism theodicy, Calvinist quotes on God determining all sin and evil, Calvinist quotes on sin, Dark side of Calvinism, Do Calvinists believe God ordains all sin, Refuting Calvinism
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Tim Keller: Private Calvinist, Public Arminian
UPDATE: Oddly enough both videos were pulled from YouTube at the same time this little write-up was getting traction through facebook shares. The video recording of Keller explaining unconditional election in a Calvinist friendly church seems to have been banished … Continue reading
I like both Matt Slick and James White—great writers and insightful apologists that have encouraged my faith in the past. That being said I don’t agree with their Calvinist leanings. Today their viewpoints will serve as two principal examples in … Continue reading
Does Free-Will or Divine Determination Extol God’s Greatness?
In discussions with brothers and sisters from the neo-Reformed, Calvinist camp one item of conversation that always seems to come up is their insistance that God must divinely determine every choice humans make because only in such a paradigm is … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvinism free-will and robots, Calvinism makes human automatons, Defending Arminian indeterminate free will, Does free will or divine determination glorify God, indeterminate freedom vs. determinative freedom, What is wrong with neo-Reformed Calvinism, why Calvinism is wrong
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A Theology in Tension 