{"id":994,"date":"2025-01-20T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=994"},"modified":"2025-01-20T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:51:45","slug":"how-calvinism-destroys-the-christian-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/01\/20\/how-calvinism-destroys-the-christian-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"How Calvinism Destroys the Christian Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Theistic Determinism destroys God&#8217;s righteousness, human knowledge, and helps atheists justifiably reject Christian theism. We note how Theistic Determinism is not only in opposition to the Bible, but any reasonable world view and thus should be rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Calvinism Destroys the Christian Faith\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KP4s9Ny957w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Second video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Biblical Proof for Calvinism?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWltwCrrQ4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scripture is unreliable, as in Scripture can&#8217;t be known, if Calvinism is true.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/eph\/2\/8\/s_1099008\">Eph 2:8<\/a> &#8211; Calvinist claim &#8220;faith is a gift given to the elect&#8221;. Faith is not the gift gender agreement. The gift is the entire package.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No other verse says faith is a gift from God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/rom\/10\/9\/s_1056009\">Rom 10:9<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/jhn\/6\/44\/s_1003044\">John 6:44<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theistic Determinism destroys God&#8217;s righteousness, human knowledge, and helps atheists justifiably reject Christian theism. We note how Theistic Determinism is not only in opposition to the Bible, but any reasonable world view and thus should be rejected. Second video: Points:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-calvinism","category-reformed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}