Taking a quick look at brother Comforts message here are the problems I see with it.
1). Comparing Calvinists to gnostics. Gnostics were a heretical group that denied the diety of Christ, and to compare men like Spurgeon and Edwards to gnostics is perposterous.
2). A misrepresentaion of the TULIP accrostic that comes from not getting his deffinitions straight from the source, but rather a thrid party.
3). Character assaination- claiming that Calvin's Institutes could not possibly be good since he was only in his twenties when he wrote it.
4). Misquoting or giving partial quotations by men such as Spurgeon. You can make anybody say what you want them to say when you take them out of context. For instance he states that John Calvin does not mention the love of God in his Institutes, well I can show you numerous places where he does mention it.
5). He makes false claims about Calvinists such as this: "They have no concept that they are hurting the cause of Christ and dividing the body of Christ.
Calvinists are not builders; they are destroyers." Was Charles Spurgeon, William Carey, Judson, and Edward and others destroyers?
He also says: "In forty-two years of ministry, I have been in thousands of churches. I have never been in one thatwas built on Calvinism." Clearly then he does not realize that Baptist history is dominated by men of Calvinistic leaning and that almost all of the early church planting done in America as by Calvinistic Baptists.
6). He claims that Calvinists are not evangelistic when nothing could be further from the truth.
These are just a few problems with Ron Comforts message, besides the fact that the shoddy hermenutics he used to proof text his points is unacceptable.
