James Arminius youtube Clip
I made a quick youtube video on James Arminius, giving a brief overview of his history and of the 5 points of the Remonstrants. Enjoy!!!
Responsibility - Evaluation of Arminian Grounds for LFW
Outline of Edwards Arguments in part V.I Arminians say if something causally predetermines our choices, we are not responsible. But responsibility is not the cause of choices, it’s in the nature of choices If responsibility is in the cause of choices, we search through an infinite regression of causes, and nothing is ever responsible. My Response Point 1 is close, but not quite accurate. While our actions can be predetermined, our choices cannot be. Choice cannot be predetermined, else it’s not choice. Predeterminism leave us with only one possible action, but choice requires alternatives (i.e. more than one). A “predetermined choice” is self-contradictory, implying we can choose something we can’t choose. So we think Calvinists are inconsistent for saying we can choose. Also, Arminians agree that we are responsible for our choices. Even though we deny we are responsible for things we are causally predetermined to do, we are not saying responsibility lies in the cause of choices,
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God be with you,
Dan
It seems like the concluding decades of the 20th C. saw almost all who could or should have had a stronger Arminian leaning (love and justice base) becoming Calvinist compromised in varied ways without even realizing it. It was because of the abused Romans 7 and scribal-errors-necessarily-in-the-Greek-text mentality that increasingly crossed all religious academia boundaries beginning in 1900. Hence Arminianism seems, in my experience to be maligned on every hand - at least by radio/TV preachers and teachers! Do we have any real heavyweights in the Bible bookstores either?... besides some Pentecostalists who get off into new revelation and worldly ministry too?
Great video! Thanks. I never finished reading the biography on Arminius I began, but had pulled it back out last week as I was digging through my boxed up library.
Keep up the good work! We need much more of this in the Final Reformation.
The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men was not Calvin's motto I do not think.
On the other hand Jude made clear that there is something which we must "earnestly contend" for. It is the faith that JESUS Christ presented to us, and that faith did NOT include an option at thinking that God has not revealed whom he would elect, does it? Jesus is the revelation of the Father and Jesus was a first class gentleman, until he met up with the temple priest/businessmen.
Further does not that faith for which we "agonizo" preclude that those who call God's wisdom arbitriness and God's justice, non-justice are to be viewed as "un-godly" and as servants of the Enemy?
Perhaps you should beware being too "harmless?" This is war, albeit war in a spiritual theatre.
Stay armed and stand my brother! :-) Roy
In his second chapter in the book The Most Neglected Chapter In The Bible the author boldly claims and classifies this little heard of character quality of God: The arbitrariness of God.