critiquing Calvinism (1st of many posts)
Calvinism has a dark side that few Calvinists will openly acknowledge. I admire those who will acknowledge the logical implications of their view that God meticulously controls everything that has ever happened, is happening and will ever happen - even when those things constitute horrendous evil. When it comes to explaining the problem of evil, its "achilles heel" is most exposed. Pastorally, many Calvinists will "counsel" (and act) more like Arminians, but you can’t have it both ways. God cannot be “rendering everything certain” as He meticulously controls everything under their exaggerated view of what sovereignty means, and yet somehow when cancer comes, a rape occurs or some other unquestioned evil takes place, that God is off the hook. Augustine taught tragically that EVERYTHING that happens is God’s will because His will in unconquerable. So many theological systems continue to be infected with this Augustinianism, including Roman Catholic ideas