Indeed, human beings are spiritually dead in sins (Eph 2:1-3 Col 2:13) and are slaves to sin (Rom 6:17-20). As Scripture tells us, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick” (Jer 17:9 cf. Human beings are fundamentally corrupt at heart. Total depravity does not mean that human beings are as bad as they could be, but that sin impacts every part of a person’s being and that people now have a sinful nature with a natural inclination toward sin.
Humanity was created in the image of God, good and upright, but fell from its original sinless state through willful disobedience, leaving humanity in the state of total depravity, sinful, separated from God, and under the sentence of divine condemnation (Rom 3:23 6:23 Eph 2:1-3). Article numbers from “The Five Articles of the Remonstrance” have been placed in brackets next to the corresponding points of FACTS for comparison to the first historic statement of Arminian theology. (Please note: all Scripture citations are from the ESV unless otherwise noted. And here they are, presented by logical order rather than acronym order to facilitate explanation most helpfully: But Arminians prefer to deal with the facts rather than play with flowers. The opposing theology of Calvinism is well known for its acronym TULIP (for a description of TULIP, see here). The distinctive tenets of Arminian theology may be presented using the acronym FACTS. The FACTS of Salvation: A Summary of Arminian Theology/the Biblical Doctrines of Grace by Brian Abasciano Today, we received permission from the Wesleyan Arminian to post A Quiz for Your Calvinist Friends. The short quiz at the end of this post which is guaranteed to make you smile. Note to serious Calvinists: It's a joke! If our readers take a deep breath and throw themselves into the subject at hand, they will find that there is much Scripture to give strength to the Arminian point of view. The Society of Evangelical Aminians have documented those Scriptures in the following presentation. The longer post on the Biblical support for Arminianismīoth Arminians and Calvinists have their version of the doctrines of grace. There is often a claim made by some Calvinists that Arminians do not have Scripture to back up their theology.
Therefore church members should not be excommunicated for this view but elders and pastors and seminary and college teachers should be expected to hold the more fully biblical view of grace." John Piper link "Here’s my rule of thumb: the more responsible a person is to shape the thoughts of others about God, the less Arminianism should be tolerated.
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