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==Calvinist response==

==Calvinist response==

The [[Calvinist]] position is that of "determinism", which holds that man has a much more limited extent of free will, and  that God has determined all things that will ever come to pass, as the ''Westminster Confession of Faith'' states. (3:1 5:2, 4) The Confession essentially states that God in His sovereignty is the first cause of all things, though many of the things which occur are through the "free" actions of man, which God influences. While, as one authority wrote, God "does not arrange things or control history apart from second causes..." He uses such as instruments, so as to make all things work together to accomplish His plan, which is for the good of those who love Him. (Rom. 8:28)<ref>http://www.leaderu.com/theology/theodicy.html W. Gary Crampton, ''A Biblical Theodicy''</ref>  

The [[Calvinist]] position is that of "determinism", which holds that man has a much more limited extent of free will, and  that God has determined all things that will ever come to pass, as the ''Westminster Confession of Faith'' states. (3:1 5:2, 4) The Confession essentially states that God in His sovereignty is the first cause of all things, though many of the things which occur are through the "free" actions of man, which God influences. As one authority wrote, God "does not arrange things or control history apart from second causes...", and He uses such as instruments, so as to make all things work together to accomplish His plan, which is for the good of those who love Him. (Rom. 8:28)<ref>http://www.leaderu.com/theology/theodicy.html W. Gary Crampton, ''A Biblical Theodicy''</ref>  

Others, however, object to the further conclusions of Calvinism related to this.<ref>http://www.gospeltruth.net/foster_on_cal/otc_2.htm</ref> While Armianism believes God has the right and the ability to ultimately determine all things, it seeks to reconcile the actions of God concerning the basis for the [[predestination]] of the lost with God's own statements about justice, (Dt. 24:16; etc.) while the Calvinist tends to appeal to God's sovereign right to do as He pleases, as Scripture does, (Rom. 11:20) in which not all things are revealed. (Dt. 29:29)

Some object to the further conclusions of Calvinism related to this.<ref>http://www.gospeltruth.net/foster_on_cal/otc_2.htm</ref> While Armianism believes God has the right and the ability to ultimately determine all things, it seeks to reconcile the actions of God concerning the basis for the [[predestination]] of the lost with God's own statements about justice, (Dt. 24:16; etc.) while the Calvinist tends to appeal to God's sovereign right to do as He pleases, as Scripture does, (Rom. 11:20) in which not all things are revealed. (Dt. 29:29)

==Non-Christian==  

==Non-Christian==