"Examining Calvinism" From Within Your Bunker

Richard Coords runs an anti-Calvinism website that is very erroneous, very one-sided, and very impossible to post feedback on. It comes as a surprise then that Richard would show up on a site like Old Truth insisting that he'd be given a chance to speak his onions against Calvinism.

I normally allow just about anyone to post comments here on Old Truth, but after seeing Richard get handed a very rare ban on Calvinist Gadfly, and with his "I'm going to say whatever I want about Calvinists and not allow them to post feedback" site orientation, I offered him this challenge. He wants to post a comment on Old Truth making a cult-comparison related to a pastor who recently became a Calvinist. My challenge to Richard Coords said:

I'll tell you what Richard, you give us a way to post feedback on the pages of your error-filled website, and I'll post your whole cult comparison thread here in it's entirety. Deal?

Richard's response in a nutshell was: "Deal accepted, now email me less than 3,000 characters of text in rebuttal to the related page on my website". Well, this is hardly what I challenged him with. I asked for a way to post feedback on the various pages of his website. What I got was: Only I am allowed to comment on his site (ie: the general public is not allowed to comment), I have to email him one comment, and only for that one page.

When I let him know that this is not what I asked for, he responded with another "deal accepted", and stated that he was making a new blog where people could leave feedback. Then a few hours later I receive another posting from him saying that there is now a link to the blog at the bottom of his site. I went there and saw no feedback link at the bottom of each of his pages against Calvinism. Instead I found one link on just one of his pages.

Richard Coords is simply not getting it. If you are going to write something against someone else's beliefs, provide a way for there to be visible feedback on each page that you do this on, so that anyone can comment. He certainly is not obligated to do so, but it's more than a little bit tacky for someone who writes one-sided pages from within a bunker - to expect those whom he's writing against to provide him with the kind of feedback facility that he refuses to provide himself.

If Richard Coords changes his mind, and decides to open up each page of his site to public interaction, and not just a few select pages on a remote blog somewhere, I'm sure there are many that would be happy to interact with him on his scriptural assertions. Much of what I'm seeing on his site however, is less about scripture, and more about what one Calvinist said versus what some other Calvinist might have said. Playing "pit key Calvinists against each other so that they look really confused" is hardly the way to prove or disprove whether Calvinism is what the bible teaches. I suppose the same could be done with key Arminians, but what would it prove?

So, Richard, if you are listening, take this bit of advice before you write any further, so that truth will be honored and God will be glorified.

What Calvinist website Richard Coords will make his rounds to next is anybody's guess, but I do hope that he will keep what I said in mind.