James Arminius and His Arminianism (1)

Broadly speaking, the sovereignty of God is the heart of Reformed doctrine; more narrowly speaking, election and reprobation, i.e., predestination, forms the heart of Reformed theology. It follows that whoever does not give the doctrine of predestination its place in his system of theology and life is not Reformed. The Reformed conception of unconditional predestination is very diffi­cult to maintain because it is contrary to the nature of the sinner. It does not make man's free will...