{"id":2928,"date":"2025-02-26T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:54","slug":"making-things-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"MAKING THINGS WORSE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was listening to a YouTube debate about Calvinism the other day and the guy arguing against Reformed ideology, a gentleman named Jed Smock, said something like the following:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Under Calvinism, the punishment for sin is more sin.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That hits the nail on the head!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was referencing the concept of &#8220;original sin&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of Adam and Eve&#8217;s descendants have been born carrying the guilt of Adam&#8217;s sin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the so-called &#8220;sin nature&#8221;. As a result of the fall, the thinking goes, God cursed humanity with an inability to do anything but sin.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plus, now all humans would be born hating God and considering Him an enemy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And not only that, but a spiritual deadness which make them 100% unresponsive to any and all Truth as well.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would never criticize the One True God, but I have to say that the Calvinist god&#8217;s reaction to Adam and Eve&#8217;s screw up was a bit over the top.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He managed to make matters much, much worse for everybody concerned, including himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to a YouTube debate about Calvinism the other day and the guy arguing against Reformed ideology, a gentleman named Jed Smock, said something like the following: &#8220;Under Calvinism, the punishment for sin is more sin.&#8221; That hits the nail on the head! He was referencing the concept of &#8220;original sin&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 All of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-and-eve","category-calvinism","category-original-sin","category-sin-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}