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[Note:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n Businesses often include in their advertisements for employees that they are \u201cequal opportunity\u201d employers. This statement means that they do not discriminate against applicants\/employees based on immutable traits (race, gender, age, disability, etc.). Federal law created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1964 to enforce this aim.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God has the quintessential \u201cequal opportunity\u201d policy, and it stretches back more than 2,000 years. The words of His Son state this policy explicitly:\u00a0 \u201cCome unto me, all<\/strong> ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest\u201d (Mat. 11:28, emph. DM).<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Please note the universality of the invitation; no applicants are excluded. John Calvin may be the ultimate discriminator relative to matters of the soul. His theological system (Calvinism) teaches that only those whom God ordained\/predestined before creation (i.e., the \u201celect\u201d) are able to answer Jesus\u2019 call\u2014\u201cno others need apply.\u201d It matters not how desirous one may be of answering Heaven\u2019s call, if God did not arbitrarily select him way back there somewhere in eternity for His salvation \u201cpool,\u201d he cannot answer it. The Bible does not depict God as capricious and arbitrary, nor does it depict men as having no free will\u2014both of which are cornerstones of Calvinism. In application, Calvin\u2019s theology is nothing less than fatalistic and anti-Biblical.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Consider some of the \u201cequal opportunity\u201d specifics of the Bible\u2019s \u201cadvertisements\u201d for \u201cemployees\u201d:<\/p>\n [Note:<\/b> I wrote this article for and it appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/i>Denton, TX, January 8, 2016.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/b> From thescripturecache.com<\/i>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 1[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0 page.] Businesses often include in their advertisements for employees that they are \u201cequal opportunity\u201d employers. This statement means that they do not discriminate against applicants\/employees based on immutable traits (race, gender,…<\/p>\n\n