The deadly TULIP: The doctrinal errors of Calvinism

The Gospel of salvation:

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4

[thetdiguy]

Thank you for the video. IM REALY STRUGGLING WITH THIS. Why does God create people that he knows will go to hell? Or why did he put the tree in the garden? Or isn't the Anti Crist that is coming a person that God as predetermined to play that role? Please help me answer these questions!!!

[JohnnyCrack]

You clearly don't understand Calvinism. God does not "arbitrarily choose to save some and damn others." All are worthy of hell for their sins, but God shows mercy upon his elect, being Christians, for His glory. If God wanted to send 100% of people to hell, He would be just in doing so, and if we wanted to send 99% of people to hell, and only save 1%, he would be just and merciful - this is the entire message of Romans 9.

I have no idea how you square the idea of "God choosing an elect people arbitrarily and then letting everyone else go to hell" with the fact the entire Old Testament is about Jews, being seemingly "arbitrarily" elected by God over all other ethnic groups in history, to be His chosen people. If you were born before Christ and not Jewish, you had no chance for salvation - the question is why. Is it because there's no reason at all and you were just out of luck for being born in the wrong place at the wrong time or is it because God has a purpose (His glory) in saving some and passing over others to demonstrate His might, mercy, and justness?

Also, there's no "pre-regeneration;" there's just regeneration and then sanctification.