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I was noticing an item in your piece on Jacob Arminius: Your editor says that Arminian theology requires a person to be regenerated before salvation. Is this not actually the proper Calvinist position? Arminius advocated in Free Will that each person is given a measure of the prevenient grace of God going before and drawing them to God, and to call on God. I think, in his theological background as one of Calvin's followers he may have relied a little too heavily on logical extrapolation: His view of Free Will tended to be a bit more existential than warrented by Scripture. John Wesley later picked up where he had left off and was able to put it to the Scriptures to give us a working view of the Truth known as Wesleyan Arminianism. For a look at the two-step salvation question, Calvary Chapel pastor George Bryson (not an Arminianist of either variety) has a well-researched book on the Web entitled, _The Five Points of Calvinism- Weighed in the Balances and Found Wanting_. One source is http://www3.calvarychapel.com/library/bryson-george/books/fpocwafw.htm
In the version I had, he offers to explain the "tulip" in the first section and refute it in the second, but the first section does the second's job pretty well as it is. |
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