A Contradiction Of Calvinism

At the heart of Calvinism is a contradiction that renders the idea incapable of corresponding to reality.  The nature of a contradiction is that it cannot exist except as a disparity between components of a hypothetical or actual worldview: since the laws of logic cannot be violated, there is no such thing as a contradiction that is not false.  Contradictions cannot describe the way reality is because the impossible cannot be true.  Whether Calvinists are honest or not, Calvinism is a bundle of contradictions that disqualify the belief system from describing the actual relationship between God and humans.

According to Calvinism, God is ultimately responsible for directing humans to salvation, with humans being unable to choose redemption on their own.  It follows from this that, since being in a state of rebellion against God is sinful, God intentionally and arbitrarily keeps some people in a hopeless condition of sin.  Yet this is an impossibility.  God cannot simultaneously be the being whose nature is righteousness and be the sole reason for human unrighteousness.  Though Calvinists might try to avoid admission of this fact, it follows from the premises of Calvinism that a Calvinistic deity would be responsible for every act of human sin, as he is forcing them to remain in rebellion against him without any ultimate autonomy.

Unless humans have freedom of the will, and are thus able to align themselves with good and evil as they wish, God can have no grounds for punishing them.  In such a framework, God is himself unjust, for he is responsible for human sin despite being a sinless being.  A morally perfect being cannot cause even a single instance of evil without forfeiting its state of moral perfection!  The contradiction is obvious to anyone who rationally approaches the concept of Calvinism, although Calvinists will use misdirection to conceal it.

In Calvinism, God's approach to handling human sin is like that of a human punishing a stone for being thrown through a window--the stone cannot be guilty of anything, but the one who threw it can be guilty of malice if he or she possesses a self-guided volition.  However, the relationship between God and human sin in Calvinism is not merely comparable to that of a person punishing a stone for being thrown without a choice in the matter, but it is also equivalent to a person throwing the stone and then punishing the stone for being thrown.  The thrower is at fault, not the object that was hurled.

If the Bible taught Calvinism, then the Bible would be in error.  As if Calvinists are rational enough to recognize this!  Calvinists are often presuppositionalists who assume their worldview to be true and then refuse to submit to reason; thus, refuting and ridiculing them is not likely to lead to anything on their part except frustrated assertions that Calvinism is true.  Presuppositionalism is a plague that needs to be confronted with the same viciousness that Calvinism must be handled with: when a person clings to assumptions, they are unwilling to utilize reason and are thus capable of multiplying their fallacies to the point where they will believe or do anything that conforms to their arbitrary preferences.