A while back, a gentleman posted in an online forum in an attempt to list the verses that – once and for all – refuted Calvinism. We here at El Rancho Reformado took great pains to research the Calvinistic response to this gentleman and thus posted the Reformed response. Given the fact we have now published a book-length treatment of the issue, it is appropriate to repost this and revisit the topic once again. Thus, we present 39 verses refuting Calvinism and the Calvinistic response will be shown in italics.
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In an online discussion a gentleman posted 39 verses from Scripture that he says definitively disprove Calvinism as a “false religion.” I didn’t know Calvinism was a “religion,” but we are little behind the times here at El Rancho Reformado.
We will post his brief introductory essay along with his Scriptural support, (in its entirety, to retain context), then give the Calvinistic response (if I may be so bold as to speak for Calvinists everywhere), feeble as it may be compared to such wise, irrefutable exegesis as expressed by this gentleman, verse-by-verse. Our detailed exegetical response – which, as you will see, will pale in comparison to our friend’s, will be in italics. My fellow Calvinists everywhere, prepare to be humbled.
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There is overwhelming evidence in the scriptures that Calvinism is a false religion.
Calvinism is not only anti-gospel it is also anti-faith and anti-grace. I have attempted to list all of the scripture that opposes Calvinism.
There are 20 scriptures where the word “whosoever” is used in scripture. meaning whosoever believes in Jesus can be saved. there are another 19 scriptures where “all men” or “for all’ is used meaning that all men can come to Christ to be saved, not just some. This is a total of 39 scriptures that refutes the Calvinistic religion.
20 scriptures where “WHOSOEVER” is used.
“WHOSOEVER shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my father in heaven,” Matthew 10:32.
Response: We agree.
“For WHOSOEVER will save his life shall lose it; and WHOSOEVER will lose his life for my sake shall find it,” Matthew 16:25.
Response: We agree
“WHOSOEVER shall receive one little child in my name receives me,” Matthew 18:4
Response: We agree
“And WHOSOEVER shall do the will of God, (believe on Jesus) the same is my brother, and my sister, and my mother,” Mark 3:35.
Response: We agree
“WHOSOEVER will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me,” Mark 8:34.
Response: We agree
“WHOSOEVER comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them, I will show you whom he is like,” Luke 6:47.
Response: We agree
“WHOSOEVER shall be ashamed of me, and my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed,” Luke 9:26.
Response: We agree
“WHOSOEVER shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man confess before the angels in heaven,” Luke 12:8.
Response: We agree
WHOSOEVER shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter in,” Luke 18:17.
Response: We agree
That WHOSOEVER believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life,” John 3:15.
Response: We agree
“But WHOSOEVER drinks of this water that I shall give him shall never thirst,” John 4:14.
Response: We agree
“WHOSOEVER lives and believes in me shall never die, do you believe this?” John 11:26.
Response: We agree
“I am come a light into the world, that WHOSOEVER believes on me should not abide in darkness,” John 12:46.
Response: We agree
“And it shall come to pass that WHOSOEVER shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved,” Acts 2:21.
Response: We agree
“To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name WHOSOEVER believes in him shall receive remission of sins,” Acts 10:43.
Response: We agree
“As it is written, behold I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense: and WHOSOEVER believes in him shall not be ashamed,” Romans 9:33.
Response: We agree
“For the scripture says WHOSOEVER believes in him shall not be ashamed,” Romans 10:11.
Response: We agree
“WHOSOEVER shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God,” 1 John 4:15.
Response: We agree
“WHOSOEVER believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,” 1 John 5:1.
Response: We agree
“For whatsoever (WHOSOEVER) is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world OUR FAITH,” 1 John5:4.
Response: We agree
21 scriptures where “ALL MEN” or “FOR ALL” is used.
“The same came for a witness, of the light, that ALL MEN through him might believe, John 1:7.
Response: We agree
“For you shall be a witness unto ALL MEN of what you have seen and heard,” Acts 22:15.
Response: We agree
“Wherefore as by one man sin entered the world, and death by sin: and so death passed upon ALL MEN, for that all have sinned,” Romans 5:12.
Response: We agree
“Therefore by the offense of one (Adam) judgment came upon ALL MEN to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one (Christ) the free gift came upon ALL MEN unto justification of life,” Romans 5:18.
Response: We agree
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up FOR US ALL, how shall he not give us all things,” Romans 8:32.
Response: We agree
“For the love of God constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died FOR ALL, then we are ALL dead. And he that died FOR ALL, which should not live unto them selves,” 2 Corinthians 5:14-15.
Response: We agree
“God was in Christ reconciling the WORLD unto himself,” 2 Corinthians 5:19.
Response: We agree
“While by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection into the Gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto ALL MEN,” 2 Corinthians 9:13.
Response: We agree
” And to make ALL MEN see what is the fellowship of the mystery from which the beginning was hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ,” Ephesians 3:9.
Response: We agree
“Who will have ALL MEN to be saved and come into the knowledge of the truth,” 1 Timothy 2:4.
Response: We agree
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ who gave himself a ransom FOR ALL,” 1 Timothy 2:5-6.
Response: We agree
“For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the savior of ALL MEN, especially those who believe,” 1 Timothy 4:10.
Response: We agree
“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to ALL MEN,” Titus 2:11.
Response: We agree
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for EVERY MAN, ” Hebrews 2:9.
Response: We agree
“By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of Jesus Christ once FOR ALL,” Hebrews 10:10.
Response: We agree
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, that gives to ALL MEN liberally,” James 1:15.
Response: We agree
“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the WHOLE WORLD,” 1 John 2:2.
Response: We agree
“And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the savior of the WHOLE WORLD,” 1 John 4:14.
Response: We agree
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promises as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that ANY should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance,” 2 Peter 3:9.
Response: We agree
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Just the FACT that the Founder of CALVINism was such a NON-CHRISTIAN bastard in the way he Tortured and KILLED Servetus makes my blood boil! And, being fairly new to the whole Predestination debate, it just Really seems like a GOD WHO would PRE-Destine Billions of Human Souls to an Eternity in HELL BEFORE they were even Born is NOT worth serving OR worshiping! Anyone care to try to Reason from the Scriptures as to HOW Calvinism’s GOD could be the SAME GOD that “so LOVED the World that HE GAVE HIS only begotten SON, that WHOSOEVER Believes in HIM has ETERNAL life.” (Please forgive any misquotes, as I was hit by a car and in a COMA for 5 weeks when I was 15, in 1968!) (Not that a CALVINist would care what GOD PreDestined for my life!!!) (Or am I MisUnderstanding CALVINism???)