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Fending Off Calvinism

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[Slipping this in-between the Alana L series.  This is the last part of this post from my other blog:  Calvinism's Systematic Theology (and how to fend it off) .] How to fend off Calvinism's Systematic Theology Here are 22 brief examples of Calvinism's foundational errors that will trap us if we don't question them... and reasons why we should resist them, showing how badly Calvinists misunderstand Scripture.   (I've already covered these a lot in various other posts, so I'll only present the basic conclusions here.  And so if you want to test them further or find more Bible verses to support them, you'll have to dig into them deeper for yourselves.)   If you can understand just a few of these (and can recognize the gaslighting and manipulation they do, which is why I share long quotes from Calvinists with you, to point it all out), you're on your way to resisting the cult-like vice-grip that Calvinism's Systematic Theology has gotten on the Church a...
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Alana L 2F (foundation of the world)

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This series  is  loosely   based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist     Point #2 Still: F.  Alana noted how Calvinists say that they were chosen before the foundation of the world (that their names - the names of "the elect" - were written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world).   This error is based on two things: 1. It's based on a mistranslation of  Revelation 13:8 , usually from the Calvinist's favorite translation, the ESV:   "and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain." "Written before the foundation of the world."  Sounds very Calvinist-predestinationy, right? But let’s read it in the King James:  ”And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundat...
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