Chapter 11 – Examples of Calvinist Interpretive Incoherence


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Introduction to Chapter 11

Example 1 – David Allen and John Owen on John 3:16

Example 2 – Jeremy Evans’ Intellectual Movement Away From Calvinist Thought

Example 3 – Millard Erickson: A Moderate Calvinist Assesses Limited Atonement

Example 4 – Practical Ministry: Ecclesial Incoherence, Impact Prayer Cards and the Sanctity of Life

Introduction

Calvary Church: Doctrinal and Ecclesial Inconsistency and the Bible Teaches Both

Practical Implications: Impact Prayer, Evangelism and Moderate Calvinis

Impact Prayer: The Plan of Salvation and Evangelism

The Disingenuousness of Calvinist ‘Evangelism’

Impact Prayer: God’s Sovereignty and Petitionary Prayer

Dr. Munro’s Moderate Calvinism and Sermon on the Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life

Some Practical Implications: Doctrinal and Theological Indifference

Example 5 – D. A. Carson’s Bad Advice to Young Reformed Preachers

Calvinism and Hermeneutical Relativism

Calvinism and the Problem of Truth Correspondence

Example 6 – D. A. Carson’s “In The Last Analysis” A Priori Commitment to Unconditional Election

Example 7 – D. A. Carson: Response Determines Destiny

Example 8 – James Ayers Cannot Come to Terms with Calvinist Predestination

Example 9 – Erwin Lutzer’s Inconsistency on Election and Predestination

Lutzer’s Definition of the Doctrine of Election

Assessing the Validity of Lutzer’s Exposition of Ephesians 1:1-4

Lutzer’s Sermon on ‘Jesus, The Gift of Freedom’

Lutzer’s Sermon on ‘The Gift of Predestination’

Lutzer’s Attempt at Reconciliation: Robots, Puppets, and Calvinist Compatibilism

Why Compatibilism Fails at Reconciliation: Robots and Puppets

Lutzer’s Sermon: ‘Miles Apart in the Same House’

If Compatibilism is the Answer, Why the ‘Tension?’

Why the Bible Doesn’t Teach Lutzer’s Determinism

Lutzer’s Incoherent and Contradictory Phrases

The Nature of Free Will

We Must Push Back on Calvinists When They Are Incoherent

Lutzer’s Bad Hermeneutic and Disingenuous Use of ‘Voluntarily’

The Nature of the Human Will

Lutzer’s Determinism and the Gospel Message

Lutzer Lies About the Scope of Salvation, Misrepresents God, and Contradicts His Theistic Determinism

Lutzer Exemplifies the Suppression of Reason and Moral Intuition and a Hermeneutic of Incoherence

The Word of God and the Responsibilities of Preachers and Teachers

Lutzer Tells Us How We Can Know If We Are Elect or Not

Lutzer Continues with His Erosion of the Gospel

Beware of Veiled Nuances to Calvinist Doctrine in Their Evangelism and Preaching

Losing Your Mind and Soul: Intimidation, Confusion and the Suppression of Reason

How Calvinism Limits God’s Love and Human Value and Dignity

Lutzer Attempts to Answer the Arbitrariness Question

Lutzer’s Incoherence Regarding Natural Disasters: We Escape Judgment by Repentance

Proving Your Unconditional Election

Testing Deterministic Unconditional Election by Contingent Conditional Faith

What We Learn From Lutzer’s Sermons

Example 10 – Erwin Lutzer on How You Can Know You Are Among the Elect

Come to Christ and Know You’re a Member of the Elect

The Gospel Irrelevance of Unconditional Election

Hermeneutical Conclusions

Example 11 – Erwin Lutzer’s Blatant Contradiction

Example 12 – Erwin Lutzer: How His Calvinism Expunges His Good News

Example 13 – J. I. Packer’s ‘Double-Talk’ and the Insincerity of the Gospel

Example 14 – Kenneth O. Gangel on 2 Peter 1:10 and 3:9

Example 15 – Greg Koukl on How He Became a Christian

Example 16 – Greg Koukl on Why Jesus Spoke in Parables

Example 17 – John S. Feinberg on Determinism vs. Fatalism; A Distinction without a Difference

Example 18 – Fred H. Klooster on the Sovereignty of God

Example 19 – J. D. Greear’s Gospel Inconsistency

Greear on Ephesians 1

Back to Greear’s Book: Gospel and Calvinist Soteriological Incoherence

J. D. Greear on a Gospel-Centered Church

Example 20 – Greg Gilbert’s Book “What is the Gospel?” and Theological Inconsistency

What Is the Gospel?

Calvinism’s Deficient View of the Cross

Conclusions

Example 21 – John Piper on the Gospel and the “Royal Decree” of “Your Sovereign”

Example 22 – Os Guinness: Both Are True, Use Them As Needed

Example 23 – Mohler on Naturalistic Determinism and Theistic Determinism: A Distinction without a Difference

Example 24 – John MacArthur on Victimization: How He Defeats His Own Calvinism

Example 25 – Josh Moody: An Examination of “No Other Gospel”

Calvinists Hide Their Calvinism: The Ethical Problem and Double-Talk

Example 26 – Ryken v. Ryken: Calvinist Inconsistency In Light of Billy Graham’s Gospel

Billy Graham’s Message of “Good News”

Dr. Ryken and the Billy Graham Center Dedication

The Wheaton Challenge


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