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According to Calvinism hucksters, it is unwarranted and wrong to preach to everybody, indiscriminately, things like "Jesus loves you!" and "Jesus died on the cross for your sins!" This is because, according to Calvinism, Jesus does not love everybody, and He did not die on the cross for everybody's sins. And, according to Calvinism, God "from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain" that the elect--the Calvinists--should be entirely ignorant as to exactly which persons are elect and which persons are non-elect. Thus, Calvinism hucksters are forced to go about pleading embarrassing ignorance as to who, in particular, was atoned for, in Christ's "particular atonement", and who was not:
"I don't know that so-and-so is elect, so it would be foolhardy for me to tell him that Jesus loves him, as, to do so could involve me in speaking falsehood!"
But, these hypocrites will turn right around and preach, to everybody, indiscriminately, that everybody is on the path to destruction, the road to hell. Here, they readily cast off their scruples about the possibility of speaking falsehood, so that they can lord it over their marks,--the lost, the unconverted, the unregenerate--NON-ELECT and ELECT, alike--that they are hell-bound.
Jonathan Edwards wrote a sermon called Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God devoted to that very cause.
He starts off by quoting a Scripture verse, Deuteronomy 32:35:
He then applies these statements to "every unconverted man" (which, of course, includes every unconverted ELECT man along with the non-elect). He writes:
So, the Calvinism huckster, Edwards, preaches to every unconverted man (and thus to every ELECT, unconverted man) that he is bound for--that is, going to--hell. Now, according to Calvinism's Westminster divines:
What necessarily follows from this is that Calvinism's elect were predestinated to NOT go to hell. That is, that it could never be true that an elect person, even an unconverted one, is going to hell. Yet, Edwards has preached to ELECT persons (not knowing that they are elect) that they are thither-bound--that ELECT persons are going to hell!
But then, Edwards was something of a crank, for you will also find him preaching, in the same sermon, that, in hell, "the devil is waiting for them", and a bit later, he declared, about the affirmations he has given in his sermon, that:
So, according to Edwards, it has been the case of every unconverted, ELECT person, that the devil (at least as early as 8 July 1741) is in hell waiting for him/her.
"I don't know that so-and-so is elect, so it would be foolhardy for me to tell him that Jesus loves him, as, to do so could involve me in speaking falsehood!"
But, these hypocrites will turn right around and preach, to everybody, indiscriminately, that everybody is on the path to destruction, the road to hell. Here, they readily cast off their scruples about the possibility of speaking falsehood, so that they can lord it over their marks,--the lost, the unconverted, the unregenerate--NON-ELECT and ELECT, alike--that they are hell-bound.
Jonathan Edwards wrote a sermon called Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God devoted to that very cause.
He starts off by quoting a Scripture verse, Deuteronomy 32:35:
He then applies these statements to "every unconverted man" (which, of course, includes every unconverted ELECT man along with the non-elect). He writes:
So, the Calvinism huckster, Edwards, preaches to every unconverted man (and thus to every ELECT, unconverted man) that he is bound for--that is, going to--hell. Now, according to Calvinism's Westminster divines:
What necessarily follows from this is that Calvinism's elect were predestinated to NOT go to hell. That is, that it could never be true that an elect person, even an unconverted one, is going to hell. Yet, Edwards has preached to ELECT persons (not knowing that they are elect) that they are thither-bound--that ELECT persons are going to hell!
But then, Edwards was something of a crank, for you will also find him preaching, in the same sermon, that, in hell, "the devil is waiting for them", and a bit later, he declared, about the affirmations he has given in his sermon, that:
So, according to Edwards, it has been the case of every unconverted, ELECT person, that the devil (at least as early as 8 July 1741) is in hell waiting for him/her.
