Charles Spurgeon: "...there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism.... Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else." Charles Spurgeon-A Defence of Calvinism
Many churches today have in their statement of Faith, something like: "we believe... Scripture is the final authority in all matters," yet when it comes to the doctrines of election and the role of the sovereinty of God, verses, man's free will in Salvation, they will go to great lenghs to try and explain away the obvious truths of Calvinism, and in their push for a man-centred gospel wrongly claim that because in the past, many have not been able to agree on these things, we can't take a dogmatic position, and so they claim it's okay for us to take our pick as to whether we believe Calvinism, Arminianism or more common today, semi-pelagianism in all its various forms. People can disagree all they like that two plus two equals four, but that doesn't make it okay for people to say you can't dogmatically state that two plus two equals four. The only reason Calvinism is a difficult Scriptual truth to grasp, is because people often try very hard to try and fit man-centred errors on free-will, they've been taught, into the Scripture. If we just let the text speak for itself, rather than trying to force our own errors into it, then Calvinism in Scripture is unmistakably clear. This 10 min video shows that interpreting the text grammatically, puts an end to any debate.
Grammar Solves the Calvinism Debate:
C.H.Spurgeon: "The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again."
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