If you can watch him in the video, skip my entire third part where I lay out how this is a logical

contradiction. And he just says, well, let me know if I missed anything important. You did. You missed

the crux of the argument. Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And I'd originally

planned to do an episode unpacking the biblical usage of terms like love and hate, particularly

when you hear God saying things like

Jacob, have I loved, Esau have I hated. But in the last episode, which came on Tuesday,

I argued that the Calvinism preached by folks like R.C. Sproll and John MacArthur is not only

theologically false, but actually logically incoherent and its vision of the love of God. I invited

pushback from those who disagreed with my

argument, and thankfully, I got a lot of it. The Calvinist YouTuber redeemed Zumer quickly made a

reply video without actually watching the episode first. Now, in his reply, he accuses me of straw manning

Calvinism. Now, this is pretty unsurprising. I think anyone who's ever critiqued Calvinism before has experienced this knee-jerk reaction that some Calvinists have of insisting that your critiques must be straw men. Now, that can be true. Some criticisms of Calvinism are strongmen, but overwhelmingly, the people saying straw man, straw man, don't seem to realize that you have to actually show how an argument is a straw man,

and that it's not something you just declare to escape any critique of your theology.

I declare bankruptcy.

Hey, I just wanted you to know that you can't just say the word bankruptcy and expect anything to happen? I didn't say it. I declared it. Still, that's not anything.

So I want to make a relatively brief video, both explaining my own argument, which

Redeems Zimmer largely doesn't really engage with, but also explaining why you can't defend your theology, but just waving all criticisms away

as straw men. Now, if you want the full version of my original argument, go back and watch

the last episode all the way to the end. But if you want the short version, it goes something like

this. Number one, as Christians, we are called to love our neighbors and even our enemies with a love that desires their salvation.

Number two, this kind of love of neighbor is a gift from God.

This is very clear from Scripture.

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