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   The following article is from the BIBLE & LIFE website, by David Dunlap in Land O' Lakes, Florida: https://bibleandlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Assembly-WritersCalvinism-June-2023.pdf BIBLICAL DOCTRINE & NEW TESTAMENT ASSEMBLY LIFE      Vol. 30, No. 3 June 1, 2023   Calvinism & the Plymouth Brethren Movement Compiled by David Dunlap Many well-known Bible teachers and leaders connected to the Plymouth Brethren movement did not hold to a rigid form Calvinism. This article lists quotations from many who did not teach or hold to extreme Calvinism. Plymouth Brethren leaders greatly influenced the evangelical movement from the 1800s through the 1950s. Their world-wide influence is still felt to the present day. This quotation list is in no particular order.   William MacDonald —(1917-2007) Bible School President “Many are called is that the gospel invitation goes out to many. But few are chosen. The expression ‘few a...

Calvinism, without biblical basis, restricts and limits God’s love and grace to a select minority. According to Calvin God deliberately and sovereignly chose to love and save only a few and predetermined the doom of the rest of humanity. This is a false doctrine, because Scripture teaches that there is no partiality or respect of persons with God. God loves the world (Jn. 3:16) and in Christ provides for the salvation of all. Those who are lost have none but themselves to blame. Consider the following texts: 2 Chronicles 19:7   “ there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons” Proverbs 24:23 “it is not good to have respect of persons in judgment”   (cf. 28:21) Isaiah 45:22   “Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth , for I am God and there is none else.” Isaiah 53:6 “ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all . Luke ...