Hey John (JEE)!

How you like this summary of Moral Gov’t Theology by the Christian Research Center: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0184a.txt ?

Check it out:

[Moral government theology (MGT), rooted in the philosophical definition of freedom as the "power of contrary choice," denies the fundamental Christian 

doctrines of God's perfection in knowledge, goodness, and power; original sin; human moral inability; the substitutionary satisfaction of God's justice in 

Christ's atoning death; redemption; and justification by the crediting of Christ's righteousness to believers by grace through faith apart from works. As 

documented in this article, these denials are unbiblical and are so serious as to warrant classifying MGT as non-Christian.]

Tom

...denies the fundamental doctrines of God's perfection in knowledge, 

Not any more true of MGT than of Open Theism. 

goodness, 

What is goodness, if not voluntary? I can hardly see how this is a valid criticism. MGT affirms God is perfectly good, just that He is not good INVOLUNTARILY.  

and power; 

Huh? I'm not seeing that, really. 

original sin; 

Guilty as charged; If Calvinism is the measure of orthodoxy, then all us Open Theists are heretics.  

human moral inability; 

Guilty as charged; If Calvinism is the measure of orthodoxy, then all us Open Theists are heretics.   

the substitutionary satisfaction of God's justice in 

Christ's atoning death; redemption; and justification by the crediting of Christ's righteousness to believers by grace through faith apart from works. 

The penal substitution view is definitely NOT the only way sincere Christians have viewed Christ's death. 

As documented in this article, these denials are unbiblical and are so serious as to warrant classifying MGT as non-Christian.

So what else is new? Calvinists often say everyone who disagrees with them is "non-Christian."