Christianity Today's weak article on Houston churches and Harvey

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23. People are going to live as they wish regardless

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No one is putting a gun to someones head when they live wicked. However how a Christian lives has no bearing a over their eternal salvation because the live and righteous of Christ is imputed or accredited to them. Christians aren't saved by their lives but by Christ and his life his work and his person.

Pretty sure Joel Osteen's not a Calvinist. Calvinism teaches that wealth is neither reward or punishment,but merely bounties of providence. Some will say that John Calvin said he considered some of the luxuries he had as blessing which is true,but he also said all Christians should count whatever they had as blessings and things obtained through fraudulent means should not be counted as blessings.

The Christian right are largely not Calvinist. At best their selective Calvinist. Usually they hate the doctrines of grace,but when it suits their political agenda they discover God's sovereignty like when a President is in office they like,but when someones in office they don't like they chalk it up to the free will of man mucking up God's divine plan. In other words they only believe in God's sovereignty in places they approve.