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Arminianism, Conditions In Salvation
Arminians teach that man of himself has the ability to believe in God and convert himself. The Reformed teach that God produces the will to believe and the act of believing. The Arminian doctrines do not produce a spirit of humility before God and fellow man, rather, they produce a spirit of self-ri
229). By these statements the Arminians affirmed their opinion that “true believers” not only are able to perish in their sins, but that they ought to maintain every doubt that they will fall away and perish. The Arminians despise any kind of certainty of perseverance. Uncertainty and doubt, accordi
After Arminius’ death, with no synod in sight, the ministers siding with Arminius militated against the doctrines of election, perseverance, the certainty of salvation, and others. They secretly formed a confederation, apart from “the existing body of their Fellow Ministers” (The Voice of Our Father
The Arminian then, has a very superficial view of the severity of sin and the corruption of man. After putting all of the various elements of the Arminian heresy concerning total depravity together, we can see what kind of man they are left with. We find a man capable not only of repentance, but a m
There the Arminians maintain that faith and perseverance in faith are conditions that man must fulfill in order to be elected. Before God elects a man, that man must have faith. Once again, according to the Arminians, the determining factor in man’s salvation is not God’s counsel, but whether or not
ARMINIANISM is that rejected error which has become the most insidiously devised heresy ever to lay claim to Biblical support. Its allure and popular appeal arise from its subtle flattery of depraved human nature, and in its apparent Scripture basis. In loud tones it pretends to the sovereignty of G
Arminianism is an incipient and prevalent error in both denominations. Even though both denominations nominally cling to the Reformed Confessions, the Heidelberg Catechism. the Belgic Confession, and the Canons of Dort, there are many obvious departures from these confessions.
Arminianism is popular because it is man-centered, flattering to human nature, concerns itself as little as possible with doctrine, avoids controversy, shies debate, sounds pious and so very philanthropical and presents a popular, geared-to-the-times delivery which furnishes men in sensational langu
Now Arminianism is a semi-Pelagian defection from historic, orthodox, Calvinistic Christianity which has taken humanism for its gospel and smuggled the same into the church. It is a rationalistic system which does not think analogically, does not think God’s thought after him, but tries to think aut