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me before the elect hated you who
are elect. If ye elect were of the elect,
the elect would love his own elect:
but because ye elect are not of the
elect, but I have chosen you elect
out of the elect, therefore the elect
hateth you elect who are elect.
No doubt, this is a foolish translation
of the verse; however, it is no more fool-
ish than the Calvinistic interpretation of
John 3:16.
The word “world” is found over 240
times in the Bible. A few times, the Greek
word obviously reveals different meanings;
however, the word “world” never means
Calvin’s so-called elect. Never! The only
reason for rejecting the obvious simple-to-
understand meaning of the words “whoso-
ever” or “world” in John 3:16 is to support
Calvin’s heresy.
ALL MEANS ALL
Joshua 6:3 says, “. . . all ye men of
war.”
Psalm 31:23 says, “. . . all ye his
saints.”
Psalm 31:24 says, “. . . all ye that hope
in the LORD.”
Psalm 32:11 says, “. . . all ye that are
upright in heart.”
Psalm 134:1 says, “. . . all ye servants
of the LORD.”
Luke 13:27 says, “. . . all ye workers
of iniquity.”
Romans 5:12 says, “. . . all have
sinned.”
Galatians 3:8 says, “. . . all nations
be blessed.”
Revelation 19:5 says, “. . . all ye
his servants, and ye that fear him.”
(emphasis added in the above verses)
Nobody argues that “all” means “all” in
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Romans 5:12 when it says, “. . . all have
sinned.” The only reason to suggest “all”
means something else in Acts 17:30, when
God commands “all men every where
to repent,” is because Calvinists need to
change this to provide a “solution” to sup-
port their view.
Listen to the doubletalk of A. W. Pink
when he says:
That God commandeth “all men”
to repent is but the enforcing of
His righteous claims as the moral
Governor of the world. 6
What Pink is saying here is that God is
not sincere when He says “all men every
where to repent,” but only saying it to show
how righteous and moral He is.
Then Pink uses Acts 5:31 to say:
[T]his Scripture does not declare
that it is God’s pleasure to “give
repentance” (Acts 5:31) to all men
everywhere. 7
Let’s see what Acts 5:31 actually says:
Him hath God exalted with his right
hand to be a Prince and a Saviour,
for to give repentance to Israel, and
forgiveness of sins.
In this passage of Scripture, Peter and
the apostles declared to the High Priest
and Council that God had made Jesus a
Prince and Savior bringing repentance and
forgiveness of sins to Israel. Their audience
was Jewish, and therefore, their speech
pertained to the Jews they were addressing;
however, they were not saying that the Jews
were the only ones to be saved and forgiven.
But Pink uses this verse to support his
theory that it is not God’s pleasure to “give
repentance” to all men everywhere. In tak-
ing Acts 5:31 completely out of context,
perhaps Pink did not realize that by trying
to use this verse to fit his own theology, he
was actually saying that only Jewish people
will ever get saved. Hence, all Gentiles will
end up in Hell. That would include Pink
himself. And because there is ultimately
no free will in Calvinism, there is nothing
anyone can do about it.
MORE VERSES USING CALVINISM’S
“SOLUTION” OF CHANGING OF WORDS
FIRST JOHN 2:2 says, “And he is the propi-
tiation for our sins: and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole world ”
(emphasis added).
“CALVINIST SOLUTION”—And he is the
propitiation for the sins of the elect: and
not for the elect only, but also for the sins
of the elect.
EZRA 8:22 says, “The hand of our God is
upon all them for good that seek him; but
his power and his wrath is against all them
that forsake him.”
“CALVINIST SOLUTION”—The hand of our
God is upon all the elect for good that seek
him; even though they have no free will to
seek him, but his power and his wrath is
against all the non-elect that forsake him,
even though they are dead and have no free
will to forsake him.
PSALM 10:4 says, “The wicked, through the
pride of his countenance, will not seek after
God.” Psalm 11:6 says, “Upon the wicked
he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone.”
“CALVINIST SOLUTION”—The wicked, who
are not among God’s elect, through the pride
of his countenance, pride that God put in his
heart, cannot seek after God; however, even
though God has withheld from the wicked
non-elect the ability to seek after God, He
shall rain snares, fire and brimstone.
PSALM 13:5 says, “But I have trusted in
thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy
salvation.”
“CALVINIST SOLUTION”—But I can’t trust
in thy mercy because I am dead and there-
fore not capable of trusting; my heart can’t
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