Calvinism

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• Calvinism
• Exposed

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Background

• John Calvin (1509-1564) was a sixteenth century
  Swiss theologian who became a leader in the
  Protestant Reformation.
• Calvin was strongly influenced by the writings of
  Augustine, who lived in the fifth century.

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Background

• The five major tenets of Calvinism are summed up
  by the acronym TULIP.
• The five tenets are mutually dependent and
  logically connected.
• They are based on a false assumption concerning
  the sovereignty of God.

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TULIP

• T- Total Hereditary Depravity
• U- Unconditional Election
• L- Limited Atonement
• I- Irresistible Grace
• P-Perseverance of the Saints

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Total Hereditary Depravity

• Man is born in sin with a corrupt nature and is
  unable to do any good on his own he is born
  totally depraved.

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Total Hereditary Depravity

• Total Hereditary Depravity expressed
• Although we assert that natural man- one who has
  not been regenerated by the Holy Spirit- can do
  relative good, it is necessary to reemphasize
  that even this relative good is not fundamentally
  truly good in Gods sight.

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Total Hereditary Depravity

• Total Hereditary Depravity expressed
• The reason for this is, as the Belgic Confession
  puts it, that the motive of love and faith is
  missing. In fact, that relative good is
  basically, in the deepest sense, nothing else
  than sin and evil.
• (The Five Points of Calvinism, Palmer, Pg 13)

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Total Hereditary Depravity

• Total Hereditary Depravity expressed
• "We are condemned before we have done good or
  evil, under the curse before we know what it is.
• (John Wesley, Sermons on Original Sin, p. 340)

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Total Hereditary Depravity

• Total Hereditary Depravity exposed
• God made man upright Eccl 729, Deut 139
• The very nature of sin 1 John 34, Ezek 1820
• Be as the child 1 Cor. 1420 Rom 1619

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Unconditional Election

• God arbitrarily chose certain fixed individuals
  to be saved before the foundation of the world
  He predestined some to be saved and others to be
  lost.

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Unconditional Election

• Unconditional Election expressed
• "God has predestined and foreordained some men
  and angels to everlasting life out of His free
  grace and love without any foresight of faith or
  works in man or perseverance in either of them

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Unconditional Election

• Unconditional Election expressed
• and others are foreordained to everlasting death
  and the number of either is so certain and
  definite that it cannot be increased or
  diminished.
• (Westminster Confession of Faith, Ch. 3)

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Unconditional Election

• Unconditional Election expressed
• Predestination Defined "The doctrine that the
  salvation or damnation of individuals has been
  foreordained by God the determination beforehand
  of future events."
• (Webster's Dictionary, 1977 edition, p.289)

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Unconditional Election

• Unconditional Election exposed
• We have freedom of choice John 2415 Ps. 11930
• God is impartial Rom 211 Acts 1034
• Salvation is our choice Phil 212Heb 59

God predestined the plan, not the man!
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Limited Atonement

• Christ died only for the elect He did not die
  for those predestined to eternal death.

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Limited Atonement

• Limited Atonement expressed
• "Christ's redeeming work was intended to save
  the elect only and actually secured salvation for
  them. His death was a substitutionary sacrifice
  of the penalty of sin in the place of certain
  specified sinners. In addition to putting away
  the sins of His people

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Limited Atonement

• Limited Atonement expressed
• Christ's redemption secured everything
  necessary for their salvation, including faith,
  which united them to Him. The gift of faith is
  infallibly applied by the Spirit to all for whom
  Christ died, thereby guaranteeing their
  salvation."
• (The Five Points of Calvinism, Defined,
  Defended, Documented)

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Limited Atonement

• Martin Luther
• And all the prophets saw this, that Christ was
  to become the greatest thief, murderer,
  adulterer, robber, desecrator, blasphemer, etc.,
  there has ever been anywhere in the world. He is
  not acting in His own Person now. Now He is not
  the Son of God, born of the Virgin.

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Limited Atonement

• But He is a sinner, who has and bears the sin of
  Paul, the former blasphemer persecutor, and
  assaulter of Peter, who denied Christ of David,
  who was an adulterer and a murderer, and who
  caused the Gentiles to blaspheme the name of the
  Lord
• -- Galatians 313, p. 277

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Limited Atonement

• Paul Billheimer
• Because He was made sin, impregnated with sin,
  and became the very essence of sin, on the cross
  He was banished from Gods presence as a
  loathsome thing. He and sin were made
  synonymous
• -- Destined For The Throne, p. 83

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Limited Atonement

• Limited Atonement exposed
• God is impartial Rom 211
• Christ died for all 2 Cor. 514 Heb 29 1
  Tim 410
• Jesus blood can cleanse anyones sins 1
  John 21-2

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Irresistible Grace

• The Holy Spirit miraculously draws the elect to
  Christ apart from the word and regardless of
  their desire it is an irresistible force of
  grace.

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Irresistible Grace

• Irresistible Grace expressed
• "The gospel invitation extends a call to
  salvation to every one who hears its message. It
  invites all men without distinction to drink
  freely of the water of life and live. It promises
  salvation to all who repent and believe

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Irresistible Grace

• Irresistible Grace expressed
• But this outward general call, extended to the
  elect and non-elect alike, will not bring sinners
  to Christ. Why? Because men are by nature dead in
  sin and are under its power...

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Irresistible Grace

• Irresistible Grace expressed
• They are of themselves unable and unwilling to
  forsake their evil ways and to turn to Christ for
  mercy. Consequently, the unregenerate will not
  respond to the gospel call to repentance and
  faith

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Irresistible Grace

• Irresistible Grace expressed
• No amount of external threatenings or promises
  will cause blind, deaf, dead, rebellious sinners
  to bow before Christ as Lord and to look to Him
  alone for salvation

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Irresistible Grace

• Irresistible Grace expressed
• Such an act of faith and submission is contrary
  to the lost man's nature. Therefore, the Holy
  Spirit, in order to bring God's elect to
  salvation, extends to them a special inward call
  in addition to the outward call contained in the
  gospel message

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Irresistible Grace

• Irresistible Grace expressed
• Through this special call the Holy Spirit
  performs a work of grace within the sinner which
  inevitably brings him to faith in Christ
• The Five Points of Calvinism, Defined,
  Defended, Documented (pgs 48-49)

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Irresistible Grace

• Irresistible Grace exposed
• Contradicts free will John 1247-48 824
• How do we obtain faith Rom 1017 John 644-45
  2 Thess. 214
• Belief comes before salvation John 316 Mark
  1616 Acts 1631

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Perseverance of the Saints

• It is impossible for the elect to fall away and
  be lost they are once saved, always saved.

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints expressed
• "The doctrine of perseverance of the saints
  does not maintain that all who profess the
  Christian faith are certain of heaven. It is
  saints -- those who are set apart by the Spirit
  -- who persevere to the end

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints expressed
• It is believers -- those who are given true,
  living faith in Christ -- who are secure and safe
  in Him. Many who profess to believe fall away,
  but they do not fall from grace for they were
  never in grace

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints expressed
• True believers do fall into temptations, and
  they do commit grievous sins, but these sins do
  not cause them to lose their salvation or
  separate them from Christ.
• The Five Points of Calvinism, Defined, Defended,
  Documented

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints expressed
• We take the position that a Christian's sins do
  not damn his soul. The way a Christian lives,
  what he says, his character, his conduct, or his
  attitude toward other people have nothing
  whatsoever to do with the salvation of his soul

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints expressed
• That is settled in Christ and Christ alone ..
  All the prayers a man may pray, all the Bibles he
  may read, all the churches he may belong to, all
  the services he may attend, all the sermons he
  may practice, all the debts he may pay, all the
  ordinances he may observe, all the laws he may
  keep

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints expressed
• all the benevolent acts he may perform will
  not make his soul one whit safer and all the
  sins he may commit from idolatry to murder will
  not make his soul in any more danger.
• Sam Morris, Baptist Preacher

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints expressed
• "If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a
  thousand women, I couldn't go to hell -- in fact,
  I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to....

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints expressed
• If on the judgment day, I should find that my
  loved ones are lost and should lose all desire to
  be saved, and should beg God to send me to hell
  with them, He couldn't do it
• Bill Foster, Baptist Preacher, 1959

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Perseverance of the Saints

• Perseverance of the saints exposed
• We can fall from grace Gal 54
  2 Pet 220-22 Acts 813, 22-23
• We Can fall away Heb 64-6 10 26-29 1
  Tim 41

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Let us stand ready to defend Gods word against
this treacherous doctrine