The Calvinist doctrine of justification by faith alone in Christ alone, by grace alone, is a doctrine tied into the Calvinist doctrine that all of creation is for the glory of God. God created and everything that occurs within salvation history, whether for the glorification of the elect, or for the damnation of the non-elect, all occurs for the glory of God. For all men now suffer under the consequences of original sin, which includes the bondage of the will to always sin, apart from any act of grace to bring the sinner to repentance, regeneration and final glorification.
According to Calvinism, God has chosen to only regenerate the elect and abandon the non-elect to the consequences of Adam's original sin and man's actual sins. God has done so in accordance with His predestined plan for creation to bring about the glory of God. God could have elected all men and thereby obtained glory, or He could have abandoned all men and also obtained glory. Alternatively, God can abandon some and save others and also obtain glory. The multiple choices available to God allow God to have a secret reason to chose one plan of salvation and damnation over against any other plan. As the secret knowledge God has to carry out one plan, rather than any other plan, is never revealed to men, even within divine revelation itself.
Therefore the Calvinist God always acts to create and predestined all things in accord with His own secret divine knowledge. The Calvinist God is therefore equivalent to the god of the Gnostics, who have a secret knowledge required for salvation. The Calvinist god of secrets is really another version of the pagan, gnostic god of secrets, who acts to reveal, only to reveal there are secrets that are never to be revealed.
Conclusion - The Calvinist doctrines of justification by faith alone for the glory of God alone reduces God down to the pagan god of Gnosticism. Both the Calvinist and Gnostic gods are false gods.
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