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Martyred for the Gospel

Martyred for the Gospel
The burning of Tharchbishop of Cant. D. Tho. Cranmer in the town dich at Oxford, with his hand first thrust into the fyre, wherwith he subscribed before. [Click on the picture to see Cranmer's last words.]

Daily Bible Verse

Friday, March 14, 2014

John Calvin Admonishes Roger Olson's Attack on God's Goodness



You yourself, however, will one day find, to your sorrow, how abhorrent a crime it is to trifle and lie in this manner concerning the secret mysteries of God! And that you may clearly understand that you are not dealing with me in this your war against the truth, but with the supreme judge of heaven Himself, whose tribunal, you may be assured, you can never escape, ....  -- John Calvin






Roger Olson, the heresiarch Arminian and promoter of Open Theism, often calls the God of the Bible a monster when he is debating Calvinists.  Olson selectively reads Scripture and cuts out the hard verses against his position or uses massively revisionist exegetical presuppositions to explain away the plain meaning of the text.  Here the late John Calvin completely annihilates Olson's arguments:

"You yourself, however, will one day find, to your sorrow, how abhorrent a crime it is to trifle and lie in this manner concerning the secret mysteries of God! And that you may clearly understand that you are not dealing with me in this your war against the truth, but with the supreme judge of heaven Himself, whose tribunal, you may be assured, you can never escape, listen to that which Job testifies--and certainly under none other influence than the inspiration of the Holy Spirit--that the doings of Satan, and of the robbers who plundered him, were the works of God Himself. And yet Job never, in the extremest idea, charges God with sin. No such most distant intimation is found in the patriarch. On the contrary, he blesses God's holy name for what He had done by Satan and by these robbers (Job 1:21). So also when the brethren of the innocent Joseph sold him to the Ishmaelites, the deed was evidently a most wicked one. But when Joseph ascribes this to God as His work, so far is he from imputing sin to God, that he considers and lauds His infinite goodness, because that, by this very means, He had given nourishment to his father's whole family (Genesis 45:1-28.). "

-- John Calvin, The Secret Providence of God.

http://www.the-highway.com/Calvin2_sectionIII.html

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