Paul said, “We persuade men” (2 Corinthians 5:11). Why, if the elect don’t need persuading, having been predestined to salvation, and the nonelect can’t be persuaded, having been predestined to the lake of fire? The plain text of Scripture is mutilated in order to fit a theory. Luke writes that Paul and Barnabas “so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.” (Acts 14:1). So spake? Isn’t that misleading? Calvinism says that the listeners’ salvation had nothing to do with the apostles’ preaching but with God sovereignly regenerating and giving faith to
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