"But predestination!" (#17: double-speak and the gospel)
In this series, I'm examining some things that Calvinists (especially my ex-pastor) say about predestination. The previous post was supposed to be the last post in this series, but since I added this really late to the post of sermons , I figured it should also get its own post because it's important and should be highlighted and considered. 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) . And lastly, seventeenth: From his September 2023 sermon on Jonah. Notice that the whole thing is basically one big contradiction, talking out of bo