The Calvinism Debate - Way of Life Literature

preached to every person and God is not willing that anyshould perish, it is obvious that every person has thepossibility to be saved through believing it (Mk. 16:15-16; 2Pet. 3:9).JESUS BOUGHT THE UNSAVED FALSE TEACHERSWHO TEACH DAMNABLE DOCTRINES AND DENYCHRIST -- “But there were false prophets also among thepeople, even as there shall be false teachers among you,who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denyingthe Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselvesswi destruction” (2 Pet. 2:1).If the Lord bought these unsaved false teachers, and theBible plainly says that He did, then the Calvinist doctrine oflimited atonement falls to the ground.JESUS TASTED DEATH FOR EVERY MAN -- “But wesee Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels forthe suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour;that he by the grace of God should taste death for everyman” (Heb. 2:9).Again, it is clear in this Scripture that Jesus died to makeatonement for every man and not just for the elect.G O D E L E C T S A C C O R D I N G T O H I SFOREKNOWLEDGE -- “Elect according to theforeknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification ofthe Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood ofJesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied” (1Pet. 1:2).e standard Calvinist position on foreknowledge isbasically to do away with it by making it the same as fore will,doing away completely with the possibility that God’s electioncould have anything to do with what He foresees. But theword that Peter uses for “foreknowledge” is a word thatmeans simply that God foreknew what would happen. It isthe Greek word “prognosis,” which is a word still usedcommonly in English. When a doctor gives the prognosis of a70