{"id":2513,"date":"2024-09-29T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","slug":"keep-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"KEEP READING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought I would share a couple of random comments from a YouTube video created by a Calvinist who was fishing for critics of John Calvin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, the responses were overwhelmingly positive &#8211; Calvinists turning out to support their guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I share them as real life proof for any who doubt that people really buy into the idea that before time begins, God chooses some people for salvation and damns all the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First up is Tony who repeats the Calvinist talking point that when God chooses only a handful for salvation and reserves all the rest for damnation it is all to God&#8217;s GLORY:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Glory-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"277\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lorraine, on the other hand, prefers to focus on the positive &#8211; the lucky ones whom God chooses as His &#8220;forever friends&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg_tJkow0_zzujRb7qS0hqnGomIJAlEiveICYEOBITUZx0OZs4xm1paZ9ZmTOijXBtPhyphenhyphenolxEb11INqCpr3NOUlHB8gnAhGaQazKQCFGNAk5z6TP7751pDsRSH6IuK-ROtDFklg5Sa1ptB1fuCQh3xBtF64k09aBtU734r-9OWU2akuvbU6AePgHKcRlAU\/w400-h220\/sovereign%20god.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"173\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would share a couple of random comments from a YouTube video created by a Calvinist who was fishing for critics of John Calvin.\u00a0 Instead, the responses were overwhelmingly positive &#8211; Calvinists turning out to support their guy.\u00a0 I share them as real life proof for any who doubt that people really buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}