I Do Not Believe Luther was Born-Again

How can it be rationally said that God "offers all that is necessary to salvation" (Luther) to those whom He "purposely leaves reprobates...to perish" (Luther)? "Nor is it for us to ask why..." (Luther). Why?

There is no answer to this blatant contradiction except to say Luther was never born-again; so, he speaks without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, for he does not have the Holy Spirit indwelling his innerman.

The only way that God could have done all He could, yet men remain unsaved, is if man may choose to accept or reject salvation He offers. That conclusion is inescapable-but that biblical logic cannot be acknowledged, for it would destroy Calvinism.

Luther wrote an entire book against free-will. Once committed, he seems eternally committed. Surely, his Hell will be worse than that of an atheist even, for he came so close to God and still rejected His way of salvation.

The god of Calvinism has "genuine, compassionate love" but does nothing to help them? Genuine compassion for the derelict would not just leave him there but would do all that could be done to rescue him. Otherwise it is not compassion of the good Samaritan who cared for the derelict (Luke 10.33-35) but the hypocrisy of the priest and the Levite who "passed by on the other side" (Luke 10.31-32) and left the robbed and wounded victim to die-and worse, predestined that condition. The "love" MacArthur attributes to God is like that of his own self and those condemned by James who say to one naked and starving, "Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled," but give him nothing (James 2.15-16).

If God sovereignly elects and effectively calls without man having any choice in the matter then it is incumbent upon God to save all because He can. If He doesn't then he is evil, and therefore, he is, in fact, not God of the Bible.