Why are people so hostile to the doctrine of election?

I think there are two reasons.

The principal objections to the doctrine of election are one.

People see it as expressing too low of a view of humans.

People will acknowledge that we're fallen, that we are by nature sinners, and that we are

depraved, and we have been morally impoverished by the fall, but they don't believe in a doctrine of

original sin that says, in the fall, we have lost all moral ability to incline ourselves to the things of God.

They think that that demeans humanity.

And I have to say on the side that those who take that view are usually operating on a humanistic

understanding of humanity.

That they have a concept of free will that is the same as the second or humanist has.

That the will is not impaired by the fall.

Maybe they'll admit that it's being weakened a little bit,

but it's not in bondage to sin. The soul is, the will is not deadened. We believe

in free will in the sense that we still have the faculty of choosing. We still have the ability

to choose what we want to choose, but it's the want to that's in big trouble.

Am I for questioning what the Calvinists say? big trouble I'm all

for questioning

what the Calvinist say

am I for still

that I choose another way

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