1...1 Peter 1:20 KJV
[20] Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,.... Verse 20 is the only “eternal decree” (Calvin’s terminology) mentioned in the Bible; i.e., in eternity past, God ordained that Jesus...

2...Christ would die for sinners. God may have decided before Genesis 1:1 to elect those who got in His Son (Eph. 1:4), but He did not actually elect them until they got into His Son. That took place in time, not eternity. Predestination (in regards to salvation) is completely...

3...an act that takes place in time, since nobody is predestinated until they are elected. Of course, you can’t say that God’s foreordination is arbitrary either. God foreknew man’s fall and made provision for it (Acts 2:23). Now, here are the terms that completely screwed up...

4...Calvin’s mind. He didn’t know enough Bible to understand any of them, so he interpreted every one of them with his own noodle: private interpretation via “Christian” philosophy (Col. 2:8). 1. Foreordination—used only once in the Scripture, and only of God’s decision to....

5...sacrifice His Son for man’s sin. God did cause His Son to be crucified (Acts 2:23), but He used “the wrath of man” to accomplish that purpose (Psa. 76:10). Christ made it very clear that no man had to take part in His death personally (Matt. 18:7).

6...2. Foreknowledge—actually used only four times in Scripture and all of them in the New Testament. But nowhere does any verse say that God causes man to act a certain way because of God’s foreknowledge. In fact, the Holy Spirit records a situation where an event did...

7...not take place because of God’s foreknowledge; i.e., David, having God’s foreknowledge of an event revealed to him, changed the outcome of that event. Don’t take my word for it; read it (1 Sam. 23:1–13). God’s foreknowledge is quite flexible.

8...3. Election—never used once, from Genesis to Revelation, to refer to anything Calvin taught about it. No man, woman, child, or nation on the face of this earth was chosen before Genesis 1:1. The elect from the Old Testament were all chosen in time. The New Testament elect...

9..,are chosen in Christ (Eph. 1:4), and no man was in Christ before he received Him as His personal Saviour.

10...4. Predestination—never a reference to a lost man. Although a lost sinner’s destination is the Lake of Fire, he can change it at any time by receiving Jesus Christ. No saint is predestinated to go to Heaven until he gets saved (Rom. 8:28–30).

11...5. Reprobation—no reference at all to any “eternal decree” of damnation. The reprobation that took place in Romans 1, took place in time, not eternity. The word reprobate in the New Testament may refer to the lost condition of a man (2 Cor. 13:5–7), but there is never...

12...any hint whatsoever that that condition is irreversible. In fact, the term reprobation means that a person or group of people is being placed on probation again. That is, God gave them an opportunity under one system of salvation; they failed under that system, so God....

13...gave them another chance under another system.