Here is a video of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell describing Calvinism as heresy…(and no, I don’t think he is glowing from the glory of God but rather a poor quality video)
James White has the video and these comments relative to Falwell’s statements:
The irony, of course, is that not only does Falwell demonstrate tremendous inconsistency in his own presentation, and in reference to his statements of the past, but he does so at an institution that is constantly attacking Reformed theologians as “hyper-Calvinists,” while he himself is the one illustrating the nature of what it means to be “hyper” by identifying the views of men like Edwards or Hodge or Spurgeon as “heresy”! Sorry for the quality, or lack thereof, of this clip, but nothing else would work. This is from Friday, April 13th (ironically):
Now, of course, Falwell is unclear as to whether he is identifying as heresy only the view that Christ’s death is substitutionary and a true propitiation and actually accomplishes God’s intention in it (that’s called “particular redemption” or “limited atonement”), or all of Calvinism, since he sort of went back and forth and did not use very specific and clear language. But given that his #1 right hand man, Ergun Caner, has refused to apologize for asserting that Calvinists are worse than Muslims, we don’t need to worry too much about the details.
In contrast with this, I post again the message for the students of Liberty University from back in November, here. Enjoy!
Interestingly enough Spurgeon once said “Calvinism is the gospel” and here Falwell is saying it is heresy.