The Calvinism Debate - Way of Life Literature

I am not writing this report for such a person. I am writingit for the simple Bible believer who loves God’s Word andwho has not been overawed by intellectual brilliance andbrainwashed by human theology.GOD CAN BE LIMITED -- “Yea, they turned back andtempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel” (Psalm78:41).According to Calvinism, if man can resist God or thwartHis purposes then God is no longer a Sovereign God andman must be Sovereign. us they claim that it is impossiblethat man could accept or reject God’s salvation. But the fact isthat the Bible says man does resist and reject God on everyhand, and this has been going on since the earliest days of hishistory. Adam rejected God’s Word. Cain rejected it. Noah’sgeneration rejected it. e men gathered at the Tower ofBabel rejected it. When the Psalmist recounts the experienceof Israel in the wilderness, he emphasizes the fact that Israeldid not do God’s will. He describes them as “a stubborn andrebellious generation” (Psa. 78:8) who “refused to walk in hislaw” (Psa. 78:10). He then makes this amazing statement:“they limited the Holy One of Israel” (Psa. 78:41). Accordingto Calvinist thinking, this is not possible and if it werepossible it would mean that God is not sovereign, but it isobvious that Calvinism is wrong on both counts. For God tomake man in His own image with a will and an ability tomake real choices and for God to allow man to exercise hiswill even in the matter of receiving salvation does not makeGod any less sovereign than had He created a robot. And itwill not do to allow that man can resist God in some thingsbut not in the matter salvation. If man can resist and rejectand limit God in any way and God can still be God, then Godcan still be God if He offers salvation to all and some receiveit and some reject it, as the Bible so plainly says. “And let himthat is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take thewater of life freely” (Rev. 22:17).54