A little storm has blown up in the obscure corner of YouTube where Calvinists and non-Calvinists debate each other on a regular basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
One of my favorite non-Calvinists, Warren McGrew (AKA “Idolkiller”), ignited the storm by making a comparison between Calvinists and Old Testament Molech worshippers which caused great offense among the Calvinists.<\/p>\n\n\n
His comment was turned into a “short” and it garnered a lot of attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
The central topic was the question of what happens to infants when they die.<\/p>\n\n\n
Consistent Calvinists have to say that just like adults, some infants are elect and some infants are reprobates. The elect get heaven and the reprobate get hell.<\/p>\n\n\n
It’s one of many Calvinist doctrines which sounds a little better in the abstract than in the concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n
The fascinating part of the whole controversy is that as the Calvinists have taken offense at McGrew’s comparison, they are left having to defend the indefensible: the belief that God sends some infants to hell simply because they are not of “the chosen”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
This is a dark upshot of Calvinist systematic theology that most Calvinists would prefer to leave unaddressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n