Where mercy and justice meet.

Judgment.  God Himself promises to use the books in which are recorded the works of every person (Revelation 20:12-15) to determine their final condition.  Judgment.  It is a promise to mankind that Augustinian /Calvinistic predestination is absurd.  What kind of senile God would bother with judgment when He had already preselected the outcome for each individual?  Judgment would have no meaning – it would be a circus act or a merry-go-round; something designed to entertain. Judgment.   It is a promise to lost people that God cares about their condition, that He is serious about His commitment to mankind – His creation (Psalm 100:3).  It is not a promise that He will do anything about their condition outside of the work of Jesus on the cross.

Faith in operation...not inoculation.

There is a serious difficulty with the Calvinist notion that “saving faith” is injected into the elect (and maliciously dangled in front of the reprobate) to bring about salvation.   Where does this idea leave Adam?  If God injected Adam with saving faith (wasn’t he, of all persons, predestined "before the foundation of the world?") in an innocent constitution, then how did it not work as well as that injection given to depraved Paul?  Does it need the cross to make it active?  If so, why all the humbug hubbub about “before the foundation of the world?”  If not, then how could Adam lose his gracious condition and predestine the rest of us with him to sin. (I Corinthians 15:47-48)  If God did not equip Adam with “saving faith,”  then how could he ever be saved; or is he?

Baptecostals...maybe. Baptalvinists...NEVER!

It never ceases to amaze me that anyone who is a Baptist could ever call himself a Calvinist, much less work to structure the local assembly along Calvinist lines.  Calvin despised Baptists and called them filthy names.  He wrote profusely to justify his heretical idea that baptizing babies was right, even though baptism clearly follows after teaching in the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19).  Clinging to infant baptism must have been a sop to the papal power of Calvin’s time and a refusal to join the martyrdom of Baptists (Anabaptists).  Instead, he chose to attack those who understood that baptism belonged to believers and condemned them as being satanic.

The evolution of Calvinism...

If Calvinists would take the time to backtrack the logic of their position, they would be shocked to find themselves in very bad company.  If God is essentially some unapproachable pulsation of perfect energy and being that is making everything work out according to an irresistible design, then what is the difference between Him and evolution?  I reject Calvinism in Jesus’ name because it is either in league with or the source of modern evolutionary doctrine.  If God does not have His own eternal realm where He lives His life as who He is and all He has made is separate from Him, then everything is everything, and evolution is the only credible doctrine.  If evolution is true then there is no meaning, all is fact.  Calvinism joins with evolutionism to destroy the meaning of the cross.  Hebrews 10:29-39.