Caffeinated Thought of the Day: Dr. Roger Olson’s Problem with Calvinism

Dr. Roger Olson of Baylor University recently said that Calvinism was “a tautology that doesn’t have any meaning at all except that God is God and God does things and they are automatically good because God does them.” He goes on to say that “Calvinism makes God the author of sin and evil.” It’s hard to know where to start in response to such an offensive and false characterization. It would seem that Dr. Olson has a big problem with the justice of God as revealed in the book of Romans. You see Olson’s disagreement isn’t really with John Calvin, it’s with the Apostle Paul. For the matter of that, it’s with the whole of Scripture, which plainly reveals the Sovereignty of our God.

This is Brian Myers of Caffeinated Thoughts Radio with your Caffeinated Thought of the Day.

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Brian Myers

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Brian is a Senior Contributor at Caffeinated Thoughts and was the co-host of Caffeinated Thoughts Radio heard on the Truth Network 99.3 FM in Des Moines, IA from 2014 to 2017. Brian owns and operates a manufacturers’ representative firm, Myers & Associates, LLC, and has been involved in sales and business management for over thirty years. He is a former member of the Board of Directors at the Des Moines Christian School. He is also a charter member of Trinity Presbyterian Reformed Church in Johnston, IA, and has been an ordained elder there since 1988.

He and his wife Debbie have been married thirty-eight years and have four children and twelve grandchildren. His passions are politics, history, theology, economics, business, and basketball!

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