Calvinist's Honest Doubts Resolved: By Reason and God's Amazing Grace

9781928660347

1928660347

We don't really know much about Calvinism" my dinner companions confessed. "But is was a strange experience. On the one hand we had the impression that these people felt certain they were the elect. Yet there also seemed to be some insecurity as though performance were a major difference of one's salvation." As we got up to leave a young woman who had sat through the entire discussion in silence asked if she could have a private moment of my time. We sat down again and she began to tell a tale of grief . She was a pastor's wife. Their lives and ministry had been happy and fruitful until her husband and two close friends also pastors became interested in a new "truth" All three were aspiring "intellectuals ." As a result of reading current Calvinist authors they had been drawn to the writings of John Calvin Jonathan Edwards John Knox and others. Their study taking them all the way back to Augustine eventually became almost an obsession . Then each of them began to preach this new "light" from their pulpits. After being warned several times to desist they were removed from their pastorates. Eventually her husband began to worry whether he was really one of the elect. The nagging questions grew into fullblown doubts about his salvation. Calvinism which had once seemed so satisfying now began to haunt him with uncertainty. Was he really one of the elect"The above excerpt sets the scene for Dave Hunt's new 112page paperback created out of a need for a nonintimidating easytoread "introduction" to Calvinism. Based on years of actual accounts and conversations this "userfriendly" book is derived from material in Dave's much larger scholarly work What Love is This In Honest Doubts readers willbecome familiar with the key issues in a unique format that reads like a reallife drama because the characters are composites of actual individuals and the circumstances are equally real. Discover the heart of a Calvinist "seeker" and the surprising result of his quest for truth in this fictionalized but truetolife dialogue A Calvinist's Honest Doubts Resolved by Reason and God's Amazing Grace. This friendly inexpensive paperback is enjoyable to read and great to give away. Table of ContentsWhy This BookAn Issue of Great ImportanceAggressive PromotionA Calvinist's Honest DoubtsA Victim of Subtle DeceptionSomething Almost Diabolical"HyperCalvinism" What's ThatOn the Brink of AtheismConfronted by God's LoveHell Whose ChoiceTo God Be the GloryCalvinism's Last Stand