Subtitle: The ‘Calvinistic’ God Compared To The New Testament God!
Author: Ron G. Christian
Summary#
This PDF is a Christian theological booklet by Ron Christian comparing the author’s understanding of the New Testament God with Calvinistic teaching. The work contends that God’s love and saving will extend to all people, not only to a predetermined elect group. It presents Calvinism as a system that, in the author’s view, produces fear, insecurity, and a distorted picture of God by emphasizing predestination, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and unconditional eternal security. In contrast, the booklet defends an Arminian-leaning view that Christ died for all, that God grants grace enabling people to respond, and that human beings have meaningful free will. The author also stresses that salvation involves an ongoing obedient relationship with Christ rather than an automatic guarantee regardless of later choices. Throughout the booklet, Christian joy, assurance, repentance, faithfulness, the work of the Holy Spirit, human suffering, and the justice and compassion of God are used to support the central claim that the God revealed in Jesus Christ is loving, merciful, just, and sincerely desires every person to be saved.