{"id":6474,"date":"2023-11-06T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"a-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6474","title":{"rendered":"A MEME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made a meme about Calvinism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specifically its doctrine of exhaustive divine determinism. (Which Calvinists tend to call God&#8217;s &#8220;sovereignty&#8221;.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">R.C. Sproul once said that God has meticulously decreed and controlled every atom in the universe throughout all time. And if there was a single &#8220;rogue molecule&#8221;, then God&#8217;s sovereignty would be negated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So in the Calvinist system, the thoughts, actions, and words of every human to ever live were all decreed by God before the foundation of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet somehow humans exercise enough &#8220;free will&#8221; to make them guilty of the sins they commit, and God &#8211; though He is the first cause of all things &#8211; is not held responsible as the author of those sins.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the contrary, the Calvinist God is worthy of all glory because He has pre-elected a few human beings to experience His love and grace for eternity. (The others He created for the sole purpose of damning &#8211; for the sins they committed by His decree from the foundation of the world.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not sure how all that fits together exactly!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me it looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiFqVi2i8zCxATi5OG4nBqTlA45eC6B0DgUD_a1yMG8Tz9wq6GMts1RRHdYNhVPVOW7VTb3Q2vv7Qo2GxRY-nHRWJsofeENNpn51qMvcdKZJpntZOqoSudsX4EhemJ_HkYs0d30XvsZBVW2EbgtABEHToYRPc1CNObRNtB4QY_1UWoyv56c8N31fGpal7w\/w640-h360\/To%20God%20Calvinism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"924\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a meme about Calvinism.\u00a0 Specifically its doctrine of exhaustive divine determinism. (Which Calvinists tend to call God&#8217;s &#8220;sovereignty&#8221;.) R.C. Sproul once said that God has meticulously decreed and controlled every atom in the universe throughout all time. And if there was a single &#8220;rogue molecule&#8221;, then God&#8217;s sovereignty would be negated.\u00a0 So in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6474","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\/6474","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=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}