Not One Little Child: A Biblical Critique of Calvinism Review

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(More customer reviews)I love this type of Book. Take a topic you disagree with and do everything you can to explain it in the fairest terms possible, usually from the other sides point of view if at all available, and then assess it in light of Scripture. If only this is what the author had done with this book. In the interest of full transparency I am a 5 point Calvinist. As such I have read every Criticism of my view I could get my hands on; from Normal Giesler's Chosen but Free to Dave Hunt's What love is this and each time I get the sense that the author, with the exception of Mr. Hunt, really is laboring (whether they succeed or not) to accurately and fairly represent the Calvinist view. Mr. Cox must join Mr. Hunt as the all time worst at fair and accurate. Though he claims to want to assess its strengths and weaknesses he only spends one page on strengths and over 60 on supposed weaknesses...can you say Biased like crazy?
The worst is how terribly often he missuses Scripture, usually pulling it straight out of context to support his own position. My favorite example, because it occurs on the very first page, is when he uses proverbs 9:11 to combat Matthew Henry's definition of Predestination. He pulls the proverb about wise living out of it's context as wisdom literature meant to give principles for successful living and slams it into a wooden box to try and say that God does not decide when and how people will die because if he did then needing a guide for wise living would be pointless. This is but a tiny example of his hermeneutical misuse and it occurs at regular intervals.
Furthermore, he often attacks a position known as Hyper-Calvinism and attempts to pass it off as normal 5 point calvinism. But he must clearly know the difference. Hyper-calvinists give precedent to God's sovereignty to a blasphemous extent by using it as an excuse to negate all of His commands to preach the word to unbelievers. This is not a position that Calvinists hold and those that do belong to a class even 5 pointers like myself work hard against. So passing this off as regular calvinism is either the clear sign that he has little or no clue what it is he is actually discussing or that he is doing it on purpose, maliciously attacking the viewpoint in a straw man fashion.
All in all, this book is not really worth the twenty dollars requested for it. I'd wait till you can get it used and grab it then. If your a Calvinist like me then its another book to read to show yourself that you are working hard at understanding God's truth in Biblical terms and if you're one of those Arminians then u'll hoot and hollar with it nearly every page as they drip with biased, Sovereignty of God hating venom.

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