Arminianism

When a Japanese Christian came to San Francisco for a visit, he attended a church service where Ralph Sackman spoke on the life of Jesus.

Asked by a friend later how he enjoyed the message, the guest replied, Well, to hear him tell it, Jesus was an American, a Methodist, and an Arminian.

But everyone knows that is not true, for Jesus was really a Japanese, a Baptist, and a Calvinist.

Right.

Okay.

Brother Pat? Yeah, I think one other important thing about the purpose for false teachers coming into the church is One mistake that many people, especially those in the free will Arminian sort of camp, is they put God into this box where there can only be one reason for everything.

But that's not what the Bible presents.

God has many reasons for doing what he does, and all his reasons – We're not privy to them, and it's only arrogance if we pretend to know.

And like you said, it's not cessationist versus continuationist.

It's not even reformed versus Arminian.

It's not like that.

It's not anything that's secondary.

yeah so like in his commentaries on uh revelation and so forth he definitely thinks the pope is the antichrist and he's looking for the fall of the roman catholic church as part of his view of eschatology but i digress so the other opponent that he's writing against in his day is arminianism he is not a fan of arminianism and by that term he generally means anything that's not distinctively reformed So he's trying to defend traditional reform theology against Roman Catholicism.

He's very concerned about that.

And like enlightenment-based Arminianism, which he sees as a threat to the reform

status quo.

Now, if I can, I'll just give a little bit of his background and just kind of set him in history.

They recognize man's deadness and sin.

By the way, Jordan Cooper is an absolute stud, so I'm sure he handled himself very, very accurately and competently in that conversation, but that's a fun moment.

Edwards' title is The Freedom of the Will, but please don't think that he's arguing for Arminianism or that he's arguing against Luther.

Puritan preacher John Owens rightly stated, To say that a man is born again by the exercise of his own free will is to say that the dead can raise themselves and that the blind can give themselves sight.

This is the very root of the Arminian error, which ascribes the first act of conversion unto the will of man and not unto the grace of God.

And then we have Francis Tiritine who said, effectual calling is an act of the grace of God in Christ by which he calls men dead in sin and lost in Adam through the preaching of the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit to union with Christ and to salvation obtained in him.

Hi, this is Perry Atkinson, president and general manager of the Dove Radio and TV.

Puritan preacher John Owens rightly stated, To say that a man is born again by the exercise of his own free will is to say that the dead can raise themselves and that the blind can give themselves sight.

This is the very root of the Arminian error, which ascribes the first act of conversion unto the will of man and not unto the grace of God.

And then we have Francis Tiritine who said, effectual calling is an act of the grace of God in Christ by which he calls men dead in sin and lost in Adam through the preaching of the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit to union with Christ and to salvation obtained in him.

Hi, this is Perry Atkinson, president and general manager of the Dove Radio and TV.

One of them is right and one of them is wrong.

Calvinism or Arminianism.

Oh, nice.

Go.

elected after they show faith in Christ, right? Yep.

How do we understand that? So today, with history, we call that Calvinist and Arminian things, and so there are churches that went more Arminian, and there are churches that went more Calvinist.

Right.

And that was a huge dividing line around.