"But predestination!" (16B: sin, evil, suffering)
In this series, I'm examining some things that Calvinists (especially my ex-pastor) say about predestination. Here's the whole series on my other blog: the pastor's sermons ("When Calvinists say 'But predestination!'"), and my comments 1-4 (election) and 5-6 (Romans and sovereignty) and 7-9 (depravity, Book of Life, predestine) and 10-11 (shaming tactics, Feb. 2015) and 12-14 (dead, regeneration, born again) and 15 (total depravity, manipulation) and 16A (God's Will, babies) and 16B (sin, evil, suffering) and 17 (double-speak and the gospel) . Sixteen B (I broke #16 up into two pieces and this is the second half, so picking up where we left off in the last post...) And now, moving on from the bulk of my comments to the bulk of the Calvinist quotes, showing you Calvinism in its full glory. (And you thought you were almost done, that you already read the bulk of the Calvinist quotes. Oh, no, we're just getting started.) Buckl