Thursday, February 6, 2014

The Question of Calvinism



I saw this meme on Facebook today:



Now of course as an Arminian, I also agree that salvation is of the Lord. God invented it and Christ died (and rose again!) to make it possible; He chooses who to save (conditional election) and He saves them by His power alone.

So, Arminians do say "Salvation is of the Lord."  But what separates us from most Calvinists is that we believe in the power of the Lord.




Arminians proclaim the ability of God.  Calvinists begin their argument with saying that man cannot have faith until regenerated. And many cannot answer this question:

If God wanted to, would He be able to give a man so much grace that the man could accept salvation, without needing to give so much that the man would be unable to refuse?

Is that an option that God has available to Him?"

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Ben Ives said...

Sad to see the spam people have put on your site.

I interpret your poster, and the question as basically, "Does God give a man an actual choice to accept or reject the gospel?" - I think you are questioning both the "level" of depravity of man; and also the point of, "irresistible grace".

I'll answer the question indirectly: Could God have created a truly moral universe without giving man free agency to choose to sin? We are questioning why didn't God put Adam in a garden of Eden that had no tree of knowledge in it? God had to give man the ultimate choice and free agency to sin, in order for him to be a truly free agent. From that perspective - when the fall occurred, the effects on man's nature made him a sinner and all of his descendants. An aspect of that sinful nature is total rebellion towards God - and that coupled with man's free agency means that man is so wicked that he will never accept he is in fact in need of salvation, and man's free agency is bent and inclined to sin and cannot in anyway please God in the flesh. Neither can that man have saving faith in his now fallen state. Man's free will and agency binds him to reject God. - Rebirth by God again is required in order to make man willing to accept the gospel. God's grace in re-birth (john 3.3) is such that the man remains a free agent but he now has eyes to see his own sin, and is conscious of a need of salvation from what his nature has made him to be. When the man understands what his position is before God - he undeniably is terrified (the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord), and he then of his own free will seeks desperately for mercy and forgiveness. It is that desperate urgency seeking salvation which possess a man, which is what Calvinist's call irresistible grace.
Having ones eyes opened to see and believe God is real, hates sin, and you are a sinner in need of salvation - is all pure grace. The grace is sufficiently effective, so that the man whose eyes have been opened, is driven to Christ.

Its similar to the Ass that spoke to Balum. His eyes were opened to see the Lord standing in the way, which caused it to jump off the path. Ballum couldn't see the Lord at first but the ass could.

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