I agree. Not all Reformed people are evil. Some still witness and pray as though their prayers can somehow change our present. But Calvinism as a tendency is against Calvinists believing and practicing missions (and I know of Reformed missionaries that just try to convert existing believers to become Reformed, and that is not missions), prayer, witnessing, etc. Those points are where I greatly disagree with the Reformed. If you take a step back from your “theology”, and look at the Bible, Jesus never offered people to example their hearts to see if they are elect, then accept Jesus if so. The Bible position on salvation is “whosoever will”. The plea is to the will of man as though it was not preset to be elect or perdition. If that is how Jesus, Ezekiel, Paul, the 12 Apostles, etc saw it and lived it in their ministries and preaching, then that is how we should also do. I do not feel Reformed doctrine nor practice is in line with this. Sorry, I great up in a very strongly Calvinist church, under a 5 point Calvinist pastor. It is not like I don’t know what I am talking about. I have read reformed authors. I have read works on the eternal perdition of the lost by Reformed authors. I just cannot accept it. They are wrong. The whole drift of the Bible is against what they are proposing.

Hi David,
Strong words. I agree basically with you. I work with Roman Catholics a lot here in Mexico. I don’t know that every error out there can be traced back to Catholicism. That would exalt Catholicism to be more than I think it really is. It is a very strong error that influences a lot of “other” false religions. It also influences true Christianity a whole lot more than we should let it. But I think all error goes back to Satan, and this is where we should put the blame. Satan will and does use Roman Catholicism, but he has so many other avenues that he also uses, that we cannot limit it all to having a link with the historic Roman Catholic Church.

On the other hand, the historic Roman Catholic church is so typically the way that Satan works that we can note an aweful lot of key points in it. The self-righteousness of highly sinful clergy. The exaltation of good works in exchange of full trust on Christ’s work on the Cross. Antagonism against the true Christian faith. etc. It really has a tremendous amount of Satan’s signature on it.

In Christ,
David Cox