The Calvinism Debate - Way of Life Literature

Isaiah 14:27--“For the LORD of hosts hath purposed,and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out,and who shall turn it back?”Nothing that God purposes can be disannulled, but thisdoes not mean that God foreordains everything that happens,even the decisions and actions of men and devils. God haspurposed that “whosoever believeth” in Jesus Christ “shouldnot perish, but have everlasting life.” at Almighty God hasgiven sinners a choice in the matter does nothing tooverthrow His sovereignty or power.Isaiah 46:9-10--“Remember the former things of old: forI am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there isnone like me, declaring the end from the beginning, andfrom ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.”at God’s counsel shall stand and He will do all of Hispleasure is not to say that “no actions of men, no errands cancome to pass otherwise than God has eternallypurposed” (Pink). For God to allow something and ultimatelyto work that thing into His overall program for the ages is notthe same as purposing it. God’s counsel is revealed inScripture, and there we learn that God has given man a willthat he can exercise against God. We see this in the Garden ofEden, and in the case of Adam and Eve’s firstborn Cain, andin the case of the world before the Flood, and in the case ofthe Tower of Babel, and in the case of Israel before thecoming of Christ, and in the case of Israel during the earthlydays of Christ, and in the case of sinners today, andthroughout history.Verses Used to Support the Calvinist Doctrine ofTotal DepravityAccording to the Calvinist doctrine of Total Depravity, manis not only unrighteous and dead in trespasses and sins, he isthis in such a sense that he cannot even believe on Christ for85