“While Calvinists give theological lip service to the place and importance of faith, Calvinists do not see faith as a condition of salvation, but instead they reduce it to a mere consequence of election.”
- George Bryson
One of the many problems of Calvinism is this Gospel of Election. Election determines salvation in Calvinism. The cause and condition for salvation is election. Unconditional election , exalted to a level which is not seen in scripture twists the theological outlook of the calvinist. Faith is given to those who are elected. Others by default cannot believe and are condemned to eternal damnation.
6 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
As opposed to the Calvinistic teaching , Christ teaches that faith is the condition on which salvation is received.
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