The Song of the Vineyard

1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

B. Fox
I posted these verses from Isaiah chapter five because I believe they show the heart of God, His loving heart. And I also posted them to show Calvinism doesn't make any sense. Think about it – God inspired Isaiah to write this poetic (and prophetic) song/parable (finalized in Mark 12; Luke 20), going into great detail in describing His care in cultivating Israel, pleading with her and then in verse four asks the question “what more could I have done!?”

Well, according to Calvinism NOTHING because they were not His elect. He already predetermined this from before the foundation of the world? So these beautiful scriptures that portray a loving God trying to reason with His people don't mean what they say. I agree with Joseph Chambers when he stated...
"Calvinism is adrift upon the Sea of Intellectualism and Emptiness. It has no sure footing in the Word of God. Almost everything they believe is paradox between conflicting doctrines. God's Sovereignty decides, yet man is accountable. God is love, yet a multitude is unconditionally rejected. God ordained irresistible grace, but yet inspired His prophets to proclaim "Repent or Perish". God ordained the devil and every deed of evil, every abortion, etc. and yet Calvinists are marching against abortion clinics and trying to reclaim the culture of America. Their theology is a stew of confusion."


Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:8