TULIP: The Deadly Flower

For years I have believed in the doctrine of Predestination. It seemed obvious as I read the Bible. I really started to develop in my beliefs and understanding of how the doctrines of grace were interrelated a couple years ago as I studied the necessity of the submission to the Lordship of Christ. Yet, in the past year or so, I have seen no other doctrines that are truly God centered and promote the putting to death of the sinful desires as Biblical "Calvinism." In my friends and in myself, it is these doctrines that uphold the possibility and necessity of submission to Christ, making it clear how it is by grace through faith and yet a working out of our own salvation that saves us (Philippians 2:12-13). These doctrines keep emerging behind all that is Biblical in fighting sin and growing in godliness. I guess those who are opposed to Calvinism are correct: TULIP really is the deadly flower; it roots out and kills sin.