Do All Five Points of Calvinism Hang or Fall Together?
[Permission is granted to duplicate this article in its entirety, but only without additions, alterations or omissions of any kind, including the ministry name and address at the end.] It is very common to run into religious people who would identify themselves as four point Calvinists, three point Calvinists on down to one point Calvinists. Such people reject one or more of the five points of Calvinisms TULIP, but always seem to embrace the most deadly of the fivethe perseverance of the saints (or eternal security). How logical is it for such a person who calls himself a Calvinist to be less than a five point Calvinist in light of the theology of Calvinism? Certainly, to the surprise of many, such is an inconsistency, according to one of their chief spokesmen, the deceased Dr. Edwin H. Palmer. Palmer graduated from Harvard, served in the Marines, then received both a Th.B and a Th.D in different Reformed seminaries. He was also an instructor of Systematic Theology in a Reformed Semina
