{"id":5574,"date":"2024-12-04T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","slug":"satan-isnt-a-calvinist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5574","title":{"rendered":"SATAN ISN&#8217;T A CALVINIST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I caught a YouTuber called MethodMinistries interviewing Seth Dillon (of Babylon Bee fame) about his views on Calvinism.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long story short, Seth isn&#8217;t a fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of his best lines was &#8220;Satan isn&#8217;t a Calvinist&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why not?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To paraphrase Seth, if Satan understood that certain people were saved no matter what they did or didn&#8217;t do while all others were doomed no matter what they did or didn&#8217;t do &#8211; and it was all predetermined to play out according to God&#8217;s eternal decree &#8230; why work so hard to draw anyone into hell?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Might as well kick back and watch it all play out according to plan.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s no indication in Scripture, however, that Satan ever kicks back and relaxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught a YouTuber called MethodMinistries interviewing Seth Dillon (of Babylon Bee fame) about his views on Calvinism. Long story short, Seth isn&#8217;t a fan.\u00a0 One of his best lines was &#8220;Satan isn&#8217;t a Calvinist&#8221;. Why not?\u00a0 To paraphrase Seth, if Satan understood that certain people were saved no matter what they did or didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574","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=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}