T.U.L.I.P. and the Bible by Hunt Dave

Author:Hunt, Dave
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Berean Call
Published: 2014-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

Incapable and Predestined, Yet Accountable?

According to the “T” in TULIP, man is unable to respond to God in any way except rebellion. He is free to pursue sin and to reject the gospel, but because he is totally incapable of seeking or pleasing God by the Calvinist definition, he cannot believe the gospel or have any faith in God. He can respond to God only in unbelief and disobedience. Palmer declares that “the non-Christian is hostile to God...he is not even able to understand the good.”23 White says he can understand but not embrace it.

Allegedly, by His eternal decree God has predestined man’s every thought, word, and deed, including the most heinous atrocities committed by the world’s worst criminals. Man’s rebellion is only the acting out of what God has predetermined man will and must do—so man isn’t a rebel but a puppet.

How can that which God foreordained and causes man to do be condemned as sinful rebellion against God’s will? How can it be disobedience to do what God has willed? How could God complain when man does what he predestined him to do? And how could man then be justly punished for doing what he has no capability of not doing?

Such doctrine defames the God of love and justice who reveals Himself to mankind in the Scriptures. In defense of the character of the true God, John Wesley argued reasonably and biblically:

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