Double Election
John Calvin did not adhere to the doctrine of double election, and although it is generally viewed as hyper Calvinism or sub Calvinism by some, it is in fact anti-Calvin and is an injustice to this great theologian.
Election and reprobation both have a postive-positve input from God. Completely different to double election which teaches that those that been elected have positive input from God, and the reprobate has negative. This positive influence, simply put, is how God intervenes in the life of the elect to ensure salvation, and for the reprobate, God intervenes in a negative way to ensure he is condemned to eternal damnation. This is a totally erroneous doctrine.
Double election is based upon a misconceived idea about God hardening men hearts. God does NOT harden hearts in a negative sense, where He interferes to make them do evil, man’s heart is already hardened by his evil ways, but God actually restrains the evil within man. In Pharaoh’s case, when a man rises to such heights of power there is no accountability, (unlike us mere mortals, who have governments and laws to keep us in toe). Who does Pharaoh have to answer to? no one except God Himself. Pharaoh’s levels of wickedness were extreme, but God restrained him, until the Lord remove His hands and His restraint and then Pharaoh’s heart is hardened further still and Pharaoh’s depravities had no boundaries.
God is righteous, perfect and just, He is justice, and all deserve to be punished and die as the penalty of that punishment because of their wickedness. But our God is such a merciful God, and as the Pauline scriptures explain election in Romans 9, God has chosen to show mercy upon whomever He shows mercy and compassion to whomever He has compassion for, THUS revealing and showing His most magnificent MERCY. All praise, honour, glory and exaltation to Him for His mercy, for whilst we were in wallowing in our sin and wickedness, He came and has shown mercy to us. Thank you Lord.
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