People hate Calvin and Luther, and the Idea's of the Reformed Theology because it is foreign to them. They have always heard this and that, Free Will, Mans Choice, God helps those who help themselves, and then comes along Paul Washer, Dr. D.James Kennedy, Dr. R.C. Sproul, Dr. Albert Mohler, and Dr. John MacArthur. And when they hear this stuff, they recoil like a snake on fire, and they don't want to hear it. I know beacuse I was there for about 3 days. Seriously, it took about three days of study and THE HOLY SPIRIT! to show me these truths.
The reason most people today in the average church hate Calvin, TULIP, and anything Reformed, is because they have never studied church history and have never read anything that these men have written about the most important Doctrine in the whole of the Christian faith: Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Knox, Whitefield, Spurgeon, Lloyd-Jones, or Josephus, Eusebius, Augustine. You look into church history and you will see that I am right 1000% on this, everyone fought and died and bled and shed tears and friends over this one most important Doctrine: Justification.
You think you know church history, and you might but there are many things you don't know, and there are many I don't know, and we must recapture a passion to know God and His beloved bride. We must stand firm and teach the great truths of the Word of God or we are going to lose them to the most wicked lie of Satan COMPROMISE! |