For all those who profess the TULIP, and for all those who do not profess all or any part of the TULIP:
I am making and collecting an on-going list of Accusations against Reformed Theology. I hope to create responses to each one that I have listed so far, and all the other ones that come to mind, and all the ones you add.
1. You are saying God made puppets/Robots; We are not puppets/Robots;
2. This makes God the author of evil.
3. Predestination precludes our responsibility, guilt, or judgment; but free-will, free-choice doesn't.
4. God cannot/would not cripple a man then punish hm for being crippled. (Why have you made me thus, what do you still find fault)
5. Command, and invitation, and offer: implies ability.
6. Without a choice we don't have free-will, or without free-will we don't have a choice.
7. But God is love;
8. This makes God to be cruel tyrannt, dictator, ogre, monster.
9. We are all God's Children.
10. Whosoever means Whosoever.
11. All means all.
12. World means world. (go read John 3:16, etc)
13. But God gives us all a choice.
14. Look, some in the Bible choose evil; see; they had a choice;
15. Look, some in the Bible choose Jesus/good; see; they had a choice.
16. Why witness if the elect are sure to be regenerate and the goats never will be?
17. Why did God, prophets, disciples, or evangelists give any commands or warnings in/from the Bible, if God knows what's going to happen, and causes it to happen.
18. You're arrogant to be "the chosen." ; you are the “proudly elected ones” You have nothing but “PRIDE”. (You are like the Pharisee in Luke 18:10-14)
19. You're arrogant to "know it, understand it, all", no one has it all figured out.
20. (This is Gnosticism; Secret Knowledge); You are a Gnostic, focused on knowledge, and information; you are void of relationship to Jesus and peope.
21. Stop fussing about this immaterial topic, and get out to the more important matters like witnessing to the lost.
22. Stop fussing about this immaterial topic, and just love people and do good works.
23. Stop teaching Church History and doctrines of men, Stop following/reading/worshipping Calvin, follow Jesus, read your Bible;
24. This promotes lawless license, just sin all you want, it is all forgiven.
25. This promotes laziness all around from:evangelism, obedience, good works, labor, prayer.
26. Calvin murdered Severtus. Ad Homenim. Didn't Luther hate and despise the Jews.
27. I am neither an Arminian nor Calvinist.
28. Both Arminianism and Calvinism are right; or, neither is right; the answer is somewhere in the middle; each camp is taking the issues to extremes.
29. It is just a mystery that we cannot, or never will, figure out.
30. The calvinists I know are mean, rude, arrogant, short, argumentative, sinful, and instigate division;
31. Calvinist are unloving, Cavlinism is unloving, the God portrayed in Calvinism is unloving; You are spewing out hate. You are a hate-monger.
32. Calvinism divides congregations and the people of God;
33. Church attendance does dwindle, will dwindle, if you teach this.
34. There are plenty of examples in the Bible where God does not always get what He wants.
35. Acts 7:51 says men resist the Holy Spirit.
36. Hate means "love less"
37. In Romans 9, Jacob and Easu are two nations, not two individuals.
38. God foresaw what Easu would do.
39. Foresee/Foreknowledge; God foresees our decisions, faith, choice, response. The bible speaks of God's foreknowledge, etc.
40. But we teach our children the song, "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world." Are we lying to them?
41. We are to have a child-like faith, and become like children; so I don't have to understand this complex stuff; keep it simple;
42. if I offer you a Birthday/Christmas gift/present and you choose not to accept it that is your problem, and while that gift will remain waiting for you if you choose to leave it and not accept it this is your problem, and won't be your gift until you choose to accept it.
42b. This is one of the key components to a "relationship" with Christ. A realtionship is two sided, and if it is not it is considered as stalking.
43. The Lord never forces anything on us. The Lord is a "gentleman"; He knocks on the door of your heart, He does not barge in.
44. That is the most unscriptural statement I have ever heard and straight from the pit of hell/mouth of Satan.
45. How will you raise your children in this; view children in this; Don't you know the age of accountability. (The "age of accountability" is a topic to be handled separately from this list.)
46. We are made in God’s image. God has Free-will, therefore we do too.
I will try to keep the list updated with new accusations, and in time create responses to these and other accusations.
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