Answering Objections to Calvinism - Libertarian Free Will is Not Necessary for Humans to be Culpable

Libertarian free will as defined by the principle of alternate possibilities is an objection to divine determinism and therefore calvinism. In this video I work through this objection to see if it is valid. The outcome might surprise you. The Calvinist does not deny that humans have free will and free will is in fact compatible with divine determinism.

[youbetyourwrasse]

Thank you for being a preponent of Refromed Theology. I used to feel shame for the abortions I had when I was younger, but now I see that God predestined it, and my children would have most likely been like the unwashed masses: destined for eternal damnation. I feel free now. Since Grace is only for the Chosen, my children I feel, dying before brith, have been saved from eternal damnation, since so few are Chosen. Unless God sends unborn babies to hell .. in which case I don't know Him. THANK YOU, *Glory be to God*

[aservantofJEHOVAH]

Any time the defense of a dogma requires that we speak out of both corners of our mouths said doctrine should be viewed with suspicion.

[Mike-qtjp]

Here is absolute Biblical proof that God does NOT cause or determine everything; In Jeremiah 19:5 God says, “They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did NOT COMMAND or mention, nor did it enter my mind.” 2nd Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is…not willing that ANY should perish but that ALL should come to repentance.” and yet, it also has Jesus saying, "Broad is the road that leads to destruction (hell) and many are on it, but straight and narrow is the road that leads to life (Heaven) and few ever find it." So, as a Calvinist, do you really believe that God arbitrarily creates some people for one reason; to burn for eternity in hell?

[Apollos.]

That's a lot of philosophy to try to explain total depravity or total inability in Calvinism. In my reading the Bible seems to clearly contradict that idea. So many times people are called to repent and believe in the Bible without all of the "but they can't philosophy" behind it. That inability idea still doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

You seem to compare this idea that:
1. God cannot sin, and it's not that He doesn't choose not to sin, but that He cannot, which is true inability.

With the idea that:
2. Man cannot repent, and it's not that man doesn't chooses not to repent but that He cannot, which is true inability. (I don't think you are saying this but it's an interesting parallel)

Or that:
3. Man won't or will not respond positively to the light God has given him because, while it's within his capacity to do so, man will always will not to ? (I think this is what you are saying)

Isn't that by God's decree? I think that is what it has to be, right? I think you said "it was not God's doing" in the video, maybe I'm wrong. How would you square that with the "doomed from the womb" type of John Calvin quotes?