Your problem is that you re on here trying to defend the Calvinistic system that you have adopted as truth.
Everything you have written is 100% false.
I used to be a Calvinism-hating Arminian, and the more I read the Bible, the more I could see that that Bible taught "Calvinism". I hated it. I didn't want it to be true! I denied it for as long as I could. But at one point I could no longer deny it. Either I had to accept that Calvinism is true, or else I had to reject the Bible, since the Bible clearly teaches Calvinism. (It's similar to my brother's struggle, he's gay and wanted to believe the Bible, as both were important to him. After years of study, he had to come to the conclusion that the Bible taught homosexuality to be wrong, and he disagreed with it, so he had to reject Christianity. It's not a decision that comes easily.)
So here I was, convinced by the Bible that "Calvinism" is true, all the while worshipping in an Arminian-leaning church. The words of the Bible seemed clear, but I was a new Christian, and I didn't know the whole Bible, so maybe I was wrong in my intepretation. So I sought advice from my friend's parents, since his father was an elder at our church. He reassured me that I had come across the true message of the Bible (he had come from a Baptist background).
Over time I would find out that MANY prominent theologians over the years and centuries had likewise discovered this wonderful truth. When Luther and Calvin studied the Bible for themselves, instead of blindly listening to Rome, this is what they found as well. It was plain to:
- Charles Spurgeon;
- John Gill;
- Jonathan Edwards;
- John Newton (author of "Amazing Grace");
- John Bunyan;
- A. T. Roberts;
- John MacArthur;
- R.C. Sproul;
- John Piper
- Alistair Begg;
... and even goes as far back as Augustine, in his disputes with Arius.
And it can be found prior to Augustine, in the writings of the ECF's.
It is not. It puts a spin on almost every doctrine in the scriptures
You're ASSUMING a particular set of "doctrines".
All you're saying here is that those doctrines are different than YOUR doctrines.
That's doesn't make them wrong, because you could be (and IMO, are) the one who is wrong.
and invents terms that I call prop doctrines because they are necessary to keep the reader from believing the words he reads and comes out believing what I believe. Calvinism is a great deception.
You have a right to an OPINION.
And we have a right to reject your OPINION.
The scriptures say, "believe and be saved," but the Calvinist says, "be saved and believe." Where do you stand?
Wrong.
NO Calvinist has EVER said, 'be saved and believe".
Calvinists have taught FOREVER that salvation comes FROM believing, not leading TO believing.
But hey, if you want to go there:
Bible: "and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed." (Acts 13:48)
You: "and as many as BELIEVED were then appointed to eternal life."
Bible: "but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep." (John 10:26)
You: "But you are not of my sheep, BECAUSE you do not BELIEVE."
Bible: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him." (John 6:44)
You: "EVERYONE can come to me, all you have to do is CHOOSE!"