The Dirty Dozen: 12 Things That the Lying Calvinists Want You to Assume
1. Total Depravity pertains to the unregenerate only. No, they mean the saints also.
2. Sola Fide (faith alone) only pertains to Justification. No, it pertains to sanctification also.
3. Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) means “alone” and not other “subordinate” truth that also has authority though “subordinate.” No, creeds and confessions also have authority; it is not Scripture “alone.” What does “alone” mean?
4. Solus Christus (Christ alone) only regards the way to the Father. Not so, Christ is the only way to understanding all of reality. This was the crux of Luther’s Theology of the Cross.
5. Progressive sanctification sanctifies us and is separate from justification. No, they say, “never separate” but “distinct.” Then why not call it “progressive justification”? Why not clearly say that we are sanctified by justification?
6. Election predetermines our eternity. No, the elect have to persevere. The perseverance of the saints is not a characteristic of the saved, it is something that the saints have to add to their faith to complete their justification. They call this, “already-but not yet.” The promises of God are “conditional.”
7. Proponents of synergistic sanctification are mistaken. No, Calvinists think they are lost and promote a false gospel.
8. Spiritual growth is about change. Absolutely not. Calvinists believe we experience manifestations of Christ as we live by faith alone.
9. The imputation of Christ’s righteousness is only imputed for our justification. No, they believe it is imputed to our sanctification as well.
10. We should learn what the Bible teaches and apply it to our lives. No, they believe we should look for the cross in every verse which results in Christ manifestations in the Spirit realm. They call this, “the imperative command is grounded in the indicative event.”
11. Calvinists don’t believe in absolution. Not so. Calvin believed Christians need a perpetual forgiveness of sins that can only be found in the church. Augustine and Luther propagated this as well.
12. Christ works within us. Only BY faith, and faith only exists in the object that it is placed in. Calvinists believe that when the work of Christ moves from outside of us to inside of us that it makes “sanctification the ground of our justification.” The contemporary doctrinal term for Calvinism is “the centrality of the objective gospel outside of us.”
If Calvinists want to deny this, have them explain to you what all of the aforementioned para-biblical expressions mean. If they don’t mean what is stated above, what do they mean? Perhaps there is a perfectly logical explanation for all 12.
paul
Eight Reasons Why Christians No Longer Need the Same Gospel That Saved Them
1. When we are saved, we are washed and do not need another washing: John 13:9-11.
2. When we drink of the gospel, we never thirst again: John 4:13,14.
3. When we eat of the bread of life, we never hunger again: John 6:35.
4. When we are saved, we receive all of the fullness of God: Ephesians 1:19, 20.
5. We are called to move forward from repentance of dead works and on to maturity: Hebrews 6:1, 2.
6. Reconciliation only occurs once: 2 Corinthians 5:18-21.
7. The gospel is a foundation that we build on—you don’t continue to build the foundation: 1Corinthians 3:10-15, Romans 15:20.
8. Peter said he wanted to spend his last days reminding believers to add certain things to their faith. If PTGTY (preaching the gospel to yourself) is the paramount vessel for sanctification, why would that not be his emphasis in the time he had left? 2Peter 1:5-17.
Pathetic
Following is a video of a sermon preached by New Calvinist James MacDonald to his congregation. I don’t understand this attitude at all. I feel so fortunate that here at the Potter’s House we have our own little routine. During the week, I study for our Romans series, eagerly anticipating what God will teach us. My applications are from other books and letters of the Bible. We are presently in chapter ten, and have arrived there by studying Romans to that point verse by verse. If I have quoted a man or another pastor to this point, I don’t remember when. I type out my whole lesson word for word, and everybody gets a copy. Its not about me, I just attempt to teach the text as closely to the truth as possible. I don’t want it to be about me, unity comes from agreement regarding the one mind of Christ. I also try to teach hermeneutic principles that can help people in their own private Bible study. As our congregation grows, I hope to learn from those who attend from their own personal study. More than one head is always better. Frankly, I cringed as I watched this video. It’s embarrassing. I am also very uncomfortable with his spiritual caste mentally concerning the elder/parishioner relationship. Just seek the truth of God’s word, make it about that, and the need for “catapults” should be far and few in- between. If at all.
Heresy’s Calling Card: “We Must Preach the Gospel to Ourselves”
While we hear the same worn-out calls for revival, most Christians don’t even know what the gospel is. It is those under grace calling to those under law to be “reconciled to God.” If Christians really understood the difference between, under grace and under law, preaching the gospel to ourselves would be rejected out of hand.
Christ, as an apologist for truth, focused on one principle: the traditions of men replacing the truth of God’s word resulting in antinomianism. That’s it. He also stated that this would be particularly pervasive in the last days. And that is exactly where we are at today. The full counsel of God’s word has been replaced with seeing every verse in the Bible as salvific. The full counsel of God’s word (for life and godliness) that is the only cure for our new addiction to righteousness has been circumvented by denying that Christians are born again. Yes, there is a reason that we need to preach the gospel to ourselves every day: “The believer is no whit different than the unregenerate.”
They need the gospel; we still need the gospel. We “grow” by the same gospel that saved us. So-called “application” is a gospel application to every need of life. And the news is good. Tragedy need not upset us anymore because it pictures the cross. Wives being beaten by their husbands can glory in the fact that it “shows forth” the beating Jesus received before dying on the cross. Our own decadence serves to show how great our need is for Jesus; the more decadent the better. Anyone who “passes judgment” on the church’s resident pedophile doesn’t understand the depths of grace. Christians want to believe what is going on in the church isn’t connected to doctrine—whining about symptoms is easy; thinking is hard. Supposedly, lecturing people who believe Christians are still totally depraved will solve the problem. I think not.
“Change” is really “manifestations” and “experience.” We don’t change, but we can change our “sphere” and what we “look like.” Much of today’s “gospel-centered preaching” explains what Jesus’ manifestations in our life “look like.” This is the focus of James MacDonald’s Vertical Church program verses horizontal helps. Even John MacArthur bragged recently that he merely presents the text and the application is determined by the Holy Spirit and because of this, his people obey biblical truth without even being aware of those specific truths intellectually. This is what they mean by “new birth.” Our realm changes and we “experience” it, but it is really Jesus doing the work. That’s why these “experiences” are always experienced by a willing spirit and joy. As MacArthur has also said, true “obedience is always sweet, never bitter.”
The crux of antinomian sanctification is the fact that it sees the law in justification (it unites law and justification); therefore, sanctification must be lived by faith alone in sanctification in order not to make “sanctification the ground of our justification.” Hence, believers are still, “under the law,” and by biblical definition, LOST! It all boils down to the simple understanding of the difference between, under law and under grace in the book of Romans. This is a simple thing: if Christians still need the gospel, they are still under law; if Christians are still totally depraved, they are still under law; if they are still under law, they are not saved; those under grace are enslaved to righteousness and therefore need the law; but if they are NOT enslaved to righteousness, they are under the law which produces nothing but fruits for death.
Christians have to stop pretending if anything is going to change. You’re not giving your time and money to Christ if it goes to ANY ministry that tolerates ANYONE preaching the following:
“We must preach the gospel to ourselves every day.”
paul
Paul's Passing Thoughts 
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