{"id":8077,"date":"2024-10-08T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","slug":"be-careful-who-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8077","title":{"rendered":"BE CAREFUL WHO YOU ASK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Public Service Announcement for Believers:<\/p>\n\n\n

Whenever you type a Biblical question into Google, one of the top returns – almost always in the first 5 – is going to be from GotQuestions.org.<\/p>\n\n\n

According to their website, they currently average 22 million visits each month.<\/p>\n\n\n

They operate under the pretense of objectivity in giving straightforward answers from Scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n

But know this: the site is Calvinistic.<\/p>\n\n\n

And worse than garden variety Calvinists – these people are stealth Calvinists.<\/p>\n\n\n

Need proof?<\/p>\n\n\n

Check out their page on Calvinism versus Arminianism<\/b><\/a> – it has both text and a well-organized animated video which maintains the appearance of neutrality.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

However, several of the premises at work are faulty (including the starting point: the impression that Calvinism and Arminianism are the only two options).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

In the end, the video espouses “compatibilism” – saying that the way God maintains absolute sovereignty (where He predetermines EVERYTHING) while giving humans genuine choice is a “mystery”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

Of course they never use the term “compatibilism” because that would be a dead giveaway of their Calvinist leanings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

The site ought to have a warning label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public Service Announcement for Believers: Whenever you type a Biblical question into Google, one of the top returns – almost always in the first 5 – is going to be from GotQuestions.org. According to their website, they currently average 22 million visits each month. They operate under the pretense of objectivity in giving straightforward answers […]<\/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-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","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=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}