What Love is This? Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God

About this book

Many sincere Bible-believing Christians are "Calvinists" only by default. Thinking that the only choice is between Calvinism (with its presumed doctrine of eternal security) and Arminianism (with its teaching that salvation can be lost) and confident of Christs promise to keep eternally those who believe in Him they therefore consider themselves to be Calvinists. It takes only a few simple questions to discover that most Christians are largely unaware of what John Calvin and his early followers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries actually believed and practiced. Nor do they fully understand what most of todays leading Calvinists believe. Although there are disputed variations of the Calvinist doctrine among its chief proponents (whom we quote extensively in context) there is general agreement on certain core beliefs. Many evangelicals who think they are Calvinists will be surprised to learn of Calvins belief in salvation through infant baptism and of his grossly un-Christian behavior at times as the "Protestant Pope" of Geneva Switzerland. Most shocking of all however is Calvinisms misrepresentation of God who "is love." It is our prayer that this volume will enable readers to examine more carefully the vital issues involved and to follow Gods Holy Word--not man. "The first edition of this book was greeted by fervent opposition and criticism from Calvinists. In this enlarged and revised edition I have endeavored to respond to the critics." --Dave Hunt