You may click on the “Introduction” or “Example…” links below. Within the Examples, you will find an outline of the contents in that Example (which are also listed here for reference). You may then click on a subsection of interest on that outline.
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 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