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Sonnet 39 – Calvinism
For God so loved the world, He gave His son –
Yet Calvin taught the world’s not everyone.
Desire of God – salvation for all men –
But Calvinists reduce it yet again.
Christ died and tasted death for ev’ry man;
That cannot be, says Calvin’s loyal clan.
They claim that God is somehow glorified
By damning all who came from Adam’s side,
And giving them a nature so they’d sin,
And holding them accountable for when
They did just that, the deeds they couldn’t stop –
For they were liquored up by heaven’s cop.
They do not teach a just and righteous God.
In Judgment, they must face His wrathful rod.
John 3:16; I Tim.2:4; Heb.2:9
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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2013.
The Bard on the Hill 
Wow, that’s laying it on the line!!! Go Dennis!
In a discussion with Calvinists, someone posted poems against Arminians (I’m not one of them either) and so I wrote the poem above. 🙂
Now I will have to do some study into Calvinism – thanks. 😉
TULIP is the acronym for their major beliefs – Total depravity – man is so messed up and sinful by the Fall that God has to tinker with them in order for them to believe. U stands for Unconditional election – God chose some to be saved before He even created and by default chose the rest to everlasting punishment without a chance. L stands for Limited atonement, that Jesus died only for some instead of all like the Bible says a dozen times or more. I stands for Irresistable grace, that God will do special things to save those He chose. P stands for Perseverance of the saints, that those God chose and then saved will certainly persevere and be saved eternally. All 5 are wrong biblically. And I’m sure the devil is proud of those doctrines since Calvinism makes God worse than the devil himself. With all the terrible things the Catholic Church did in years past which don’t match what the Bible teaches and doctrines like Calvinism floating around, many people are turned off by what they think is Christianity and it’s not that at all.