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Why I am a Calvinist!
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Why I am a Calvinist!

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Michael F. Bird
Aug 26, 2022
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Yes, I am a Calvinist, though perhaps a naughty one.

Now Calvinism can mean different things to different people.

For some Calvinism is …

A stale and cold Protestant orthodoxy devoid of joy.
A neo-Puritan enterprise excited by prohibiting dissent and expelling explorers.
A Protestant civic arrangement about how to operate a city or state.
A system of salvation stemming from the Synod of Dort which codified its theology as TULIPs: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints.

But that’s not my Calvinism!

I explain partly what I mean by Calvinism in an old video about my Calvinistic perspective in my Evangelical Theology:

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