The Way to God - Jesus. The Way to Jesus - the Cross.

Before going any further, I want to make one point up front. Most Bible translators today are Calvinists, and if you think that doctrinal positions do not affect how translators translate certain passages, you are being a little naive. Translators themselves admit that their doctrines do affect their translations. I am far from being a Greek scholar, but even with my limited first year Greek, which has now grown rusty, I can clearly see pro-Calvinist biases at times in certain passages.  D oes God create people for the purpose of torturing them? John Calvin thought so, and he deemed it good to aid God in the effort. He wasn’t alone in that belief or work. In John Calvin’s The Institutes of the Christian Religion , Calvin defines predestination as God’s decree for every man. Some are predestined for life, the rest for death. In other words, some are born for heaven, and the rest are born for hell. Man has no say where he will end up; it is by God’s decree alone. Calvin pointe...