Bob L. Ross on Hyper Calvinism

2/25/1935 to 12/13/2020

"The Killing Effects of Hyper Calvinism" 

By Author Bob L. Ross (here)

"THE Bible is a dangerous book! That may sound rather strange, yet Peter plainly says in our text that some wrest the Scriptures, to their own destruction. And human experience reveals this to be so: many go to hell, stumbling over verses of Scripture which have been perverted, twisted, distorted, misapplied, and misused. Sadly, yet to many, the Bible is only a means of heaping condemnation upon condemnation. As Paul said of the Gospel, it is the “savour of death unto death” (2 Cor. 2:16).

The doctrines taught in the Bible relating to the sovereignty of God, referred to in religious circles as “Calvinism,” also as “the doctrines of grace,” are doctrines of the Book that are the occasion for many people “choking” on the Word. The misuse and abuse of these doctrines will deaden and kill. Babes in Christ, unless taught properly, most likely will rebel against these truths, else be misled and their spiritual lives twisted. We know nothing so deadening to spirituality as to run into hyper-Calvinism as a result of a distorted faith regarding the sovereignty of God and related doctrines.

Hyper-Calvinism and the misuse of Calvinism will kill a number of things in the Christian, in the preacher, and in churches." 

I wish all Hyper Calvinists, and all Hardshell Baptists, would read this excellent booklet (which is available in pdf at the web page above).