"But Calvinists don't say God causes sin and evil!"
If you point out to Calvinists that Calvinism's view of sovereignty - that God fore-ordains and orchestrates everything that happens and we had no ability to do anything differently - makes God the cause (and truly the only voluntary cause) of all sin and evil, they'll probably respond with something like "That's not what we're saying. You're putting words in our mouths. And you don't understand Calvinism." When they do that, show them a few of these quotes - Ca lvinists' own words about their beliefs of God's sovereignty and how He preplans, will, ordains, orchestrates, directs (code words for "causes") everything that happens. And then ask them if they still think you're really misunderstanding them. (Bold emphasis added) [And before reading the quotes, here's a great, satirical 4-minute video that I think everyone should see: Hitler and Calvinism . Awesome!] 1. R.C. Sproul Jr. ( Almighty...