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–From eternity past God intended that the most vivid and profound demonstration of his glory would come in the form of His work of salvation on the cross of Christ. –God then made man to punish him. –He made him perfect and thus unlikely to ever need punishing, or, for that matter, a Savior. –By a happy coincidence, and against all the odds, this perfect man sinned, thus allowing God to fulfill His purposes for both the man and Christ. –When he sinned, God, who is suddenly confronted with the prospect of being able to fulfill all of His original plans, becomes furious.
What you have just read is not a joke. I wish that it were. Rather, I have simply enumerated the points that comprise the Calvinist theological system, or, as I call it: the Happy Coincidence model of sin and salvation. It reflects what can only be described as an Alice-in-Wonderland reality, in which the only sense is nonsense, and logic is the enemy. This book will seek to explore some of its many logical inconsistencies and, in the process, propose a perfectly viable–and biblical–alternative.

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Jack and Diane. Two names joined in the common parlance by a pop song. They are also the aliases of two people whose real names–Adam and Eve–are no less joined in the common parlance, and represent the divine calling they share–a calling to show humanity the way back to the garden of Eden. Neither knows the other exists until their travels lead them to the same town. It is there that their mission begins–a mission that unleashes terrors, teaches lessons, and yields the answers they hope will lead a world blinded by guilt, fear, and hatred, into a place more closely resembling the state of man's original perfection.