Calvinism

Political control

The Catholic , Protestant wars showed the need for a homogenous belief in society. Calvinism was the official state religion of South-Africa under NP rule for the sole purpose of political control. Free will was opposed by the government trained 'dominee' Dutch reformed ministers to solidify NP control over society. The NP government paid for their training in NP controlled universities. In Scotland John Knox calvinism was the officially enforced religion, probably preventing Irish style "troubles".

Van Til

Bahnsen and Van Til presuppositionalists, for some reason failed to notice that Calvinism is a tautological. My own theory is that the tautology that undergrids Greek philosophy Calvin studied and absorbed .

Van Till did not notice that Hegel formulated Meaningless sentences and what nonsense was absorbed into his philosophy from Hegel needs further study.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(rhetoric)

The tautological structure of the argument is indisputable and the conclusion thus a non-sequitur.

Bruggencate on Calvinism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XANwGPaAxcc "....your free choices have been predestined by God ....." 1:24min

Which is a Reductio ad absurdum , violating the law of excluded middle(third). Free will/determinism , no third option. Free choice is the synonym of free will, not the third option to free will/non-free will.

Bruggencate is getting Erid Hovind so confused on this matter that Eric gave a non-response to the interlocutor 1:25min . Eric is contradicting himself, he can't claim to be a baptist and predestinationist at the same time. It violates law of noncontradiction.

Matt Dillahunty on Calvinism

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/50915177 20min . Around 25min he invokes induction and demands that God be demonstrated which is impossible because then God would not be God - Logical fallacies. He of course knows this.

Links

http://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/the_calvinism_debate.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBJ1wVqCeU free will issue

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/2013/03/whats-wrong-with-calvinism/

http://fromtheheartofpastorkenny.blogspot.com/2008/02/tautology-of-calvinsim.html

http://theologui.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-this-calvinist-doesnt-make-much-of.html See refs. (pro Calvin view)