Two Conflicting Wills Part2

Calvinists have a problem. According to the theory of Calvinsim, God has two wills in conflict : one will desiring for mankind to repent and be saved, and the other for most of mankind to perish in Hell. There are some issues with this attempt to harmonize a faulty theory and plain Scripture.

Number one- Eph 1:11 b- a favorite verse used by Calvinists-being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: So which will does God work out? Nowhere does Scripture say God has two wills that conflict. Once again Calvinists have no Scripture to support their claims. We are just to take their word on it.

Number two- James 1:8- A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Would not God be doubleminded if He has two wills that contridict each other?

John MacArthur said this in his study Bible: " Ultimately, God's choices are determinded by His sovereign, eternal, purpose, not His desires." So God can have "desires" that are contrary to His sovereign, eternal purpose? God double minded? Inconceivable!

Dave Hunt summed it up nicely with this in his book What Love Is This : The Calvinist is caught in the horns of a dilemma. How can he maintain the position that God decrees and causes all, and yet exonerate God for the wickedness and eternal punishment of the vast majority of mankind? He falls back on the theory that God really doesn't want this state of affairs, and yet His eternal purpose and His decrees demand it. What a contradiction!

Sola Scriptura and Regeneration

According to Scripture, regeneration does not take place before belief. Consider the following passages:
John 3:15,16That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.

Acts 16:30,31-And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Why do Calvinists insist that the new birth (regeneration) takes place before belief? Some, such as Authur Pink, rush to 2 Thess. 2:13-God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. The only problem is this- that verse is not giving the order of salvation. It is clear by the previous passages what the order is.

There are sincere Calvinists that use the phrase “Sola Scriptura” and attempt to live by it. Yet when is comes down to being confronted with clear passages of Scripture, they run to respected authors such as John Piper, John MacArthur, Authur Pink, and John Calvin to quote their works. Some run to confessions and creeds to back up the theory of Calvinism. The question I ask is this, “What happened to “Sola Scriptura?” If they really lived the motto, there would be no question about the order of regeneration and belief. Who is the final authority? Is it God, or man?