Grace's Lesser Glory - The Diminished Grace of Calvinism
This blog post title is a play on words from Bruce Ware’s book, God’s Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of Open Theism. Calvinist’s talk about Grace as if they invented the term or at least have exclusive theological rights to its use. Sadly Calvinism's concept of Grace is truly a diminished one that ironically reflects poorly on the Glory of God they claim to uphold. To them, grace is irresistible. Once God extends it, no one can reject it. They can’t reject it initially, and they can’t reject it once they are born again and regenerated. It is rather controlling. To them, grace is exclusive. God doesn’t extend it to everyone (that in spite of the dozens and dozens of Biblical passages that teach otherwise). It is discriminating. To an Arminian, this Calvinist understanding of the nature of grace is NOT Amazing Grace. It doesn’t have a sweet sound as the hymn extols. The Glorious God of the Scriptures has extended a far more glorious Grace. A gra