God does not harden. He does not blind the righteous. He doesn’t do it.
He hardens those, pushes them and makes them make a decision, even though he knows he doesn’t make them choose evil, but he knows they’re going to choose evil. But they’re already bent on it. And he hardens them in that by asking them to do what is right. Yeah. And that’s what these texts are about. Don’t believe anybody.
Who tells you God doesn’t want to save them, and so he does something to them that they couldn’t believe even if they want it, which is what Augustine in the fifth century, and then as it went on through systematized Calvinism, and then as it went on to post John Calvin and the hyper Calvinistic stuff.
Of Biz and Knox and those guys and John Piper currently up north. All of that it’s not of God. God wants to save humanity. And he doesn’t offer the gospel a con.
No, he wants to save people. First John two two Second Peter three nine. Well, he’s long suffering. He doesn’t want anybody to be lost, wants everybody to be saved. John three seventeen. God didn’t send his son into the world to damn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
Make up your mind to it.
strong, consistent Calvinism is bad doctrine. It’s bad doctrine. I have been able to source precisely the wording, but I have been able to source through Graham the quotation. Here’s how it goes. Whitfield in the eighteenth century, who was a very passionate evang evangelistic type.
Was very strong Calvinist. And he said to John Wesley, someone he worked with for quite a while, and Wesley was an Arminian. He says to Wesley, I agree with Augustine that the floors of hell are crawling with unbaptized infants not a span long. And John Wesley ⁓ is quoted as saying,
Whitfield? Your God is my devil.
Trust God, think noble things of God. Do not believe that God made humans for no other reason than to damn them because it pleases him to do so.