"Calvinists are evil." That was the title and opening sentence of
a blog entry I came across today. Well, seeing as I'm a Calvinist (I've got the bobblehead to prove it), you might expect that this post upset me a bit. As it turns out though, I couldn't agree with the author more. His thoughts included the following:
All of us, Christians or otherwise, are intrinsically evil and the moment we start thinking well of ourselves is the moment we have begun to take our eyes off the Gospel to compare ourselves with ourselves. This standard of “by comparison” is mere relativism and it’s what the world does when it tries to sort out evil without attaching blame to itself.
and
Thinking well of ourselves is not only unwise; it’s spiritually deadly. It leads to the same self-righteousness that entrapped the hearts of the Pharisees. It isn’t faith. It doesn’t lead us to God’s eternal kindness through forgiveness.
As Brad so provocatively points out, we must realize that our goodness always and forever rests in and emanates from Christ. This is right in line with today's edition of
Wednesday's Words of Wisdom. You can read
Brad's whole post here.
"Calvinists are evil." That was the title and opening sentence of a blog entry I came across today. Well, seeing as I'm a Calvinist (I've got the bobblehead to prove it), you might expect that this post upset me a bit. As it turns out though, I couldn't agree with the author more. His thoughts included the following:
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