To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of â€˜graceâ€™ to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.

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