gross

 good ol' small-god theologian leighton flowers tells us that calvinist theology makes God responsible for sin. arminians typically object to God's sovereignty. God cannot ordain/decree/desire everything that happens in the world. he cannot be in control of creation because that would mean that

GOD ORDAINS CHILD RAPE

arminians love this one. they love to think of the most atrocious thing and say, well if God is sovereign then he wants kids to be raped. yes it's horrible. it's an evil thing by far. but is it the most evil thing?

I respond

why do you always default to the rape of children? is that the worst thing you can imagine? Calvinists say that God rapes little kiddies. have you read the Bible? God told the Israelites he would judge them and they would end up eating their own children. This was his judgment. Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins. Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. Leviticus 26.27-29. You know what else is worse than raping and eating children? ETERNAL DAMNATION. Guess what? God also does this. He ordains our damnation. He ordains that some deny him, at the same time holding them responsible. How can he? Is this not unjust? Scripture makes it clear. How can he do anything? How do you expect to understand anything he does? Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. He said to them, “Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people? No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the Lord’s people circulating. If one man sins against another, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the Lord desired to put them to death. 1 Samuel 2.22-25. You have to toss aside, ignore, distort, dismantle a lot of scripture in order to create this system you have, where your will and purpose equals God's. You can't accept that God has a purpose in atrocities because his ways cannot possibly be beyond your human imaginations and you cannot possibly conceive that he could ever bring about eternal divine justice in the face of such tragedies outside of what you perceive so you mold God into your image so that everything makes sense to your small human mind. you refuse to trust him beyond what you understand. You do not worship the God of the Bible.

 this guy just pisses me off. there is absolutely no depth in arminian theology. no room for God to be God, to leave any question unanswered or any uncomfortable thought unresolved. they cannot abide with anything outside their comprehension. if anything lies beyond them, it isn't true. they will only accept a god that conforms to their comprehension. anything beyond themselves, they deny. complete arrogance.