CALVINISM: A CLOSER LOOK
Evangelicals, Calvinism, and Why No One’s Answering the Problem of Evil
© 2006-2021 by Daniel Gracely
CALVINISM: A Closer Look
Evangelicals, Calvinism, and Why No One’s Answering the Problem of Evil
The King James Version
Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®,
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by
The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org
The New King James Version © 1980 Thomas Nelson Co.
The author may be contacted at: ddgracely@yahoo.com
Revised and Enlarged Edition
2009
© 2006-2021 Daniel Gracely
Grandma’s Attic Press
Acknowledgement
Without my brother David this book may not have been possible. Certainly it would have been weaker on particular points. His constant encouragement and insight during our long discussions often enabled me to get past some particular Scriptural difficulty. His suggestion, for example, that a child’s inauguration into sin might coincide with that child’s awareness of his nakedness (an awareness of nakedness first experienced by our first parents, Adam and Eve, at the Fall) is just one example which helped me to think through some biblical conundrum while trying to come to a rational and unified understanding of Scripture. Simply put, this book has been made better by his input.
In regard to other indebtedness, I will smile the next time I read of an author thanking his wife for allowing him time to complete a manuscript. I now know the long hours required to finish such a book as this, and I admit to the strain a wife feels while her husband is overly preoccupied with wondering if one sentence he is writing ought to be two. Many thanks, then, go to my wife, Alison (who also helped with some formatting and proofing).
Several friends, Jim Rhynard and Drew Steiger, Dorothy Jones, Drew’s mom, Lin Steiger, and my mother, Nancy Gracely, were also encouraging. Furthermore, various resources were very helpful, including Strong’s Concordance, [apostolic-churches. net/bible/strongs.html, scripturetext. com, and BlueLetterBible.com.
Finally, but first in importance, I thank the Lord for all His help and for sustaining me during the writing of this book.
In Memory
of my father,
Eugene Gracely
and
my uncle,
Elwyn Gracely
for Andrew