God, Israel, and the Nature of Free Will
What is the nature of free will? Is it an illusion? Are our choices made for us by outside forces? Or can we actually make real decisions?
Arminianism
A series of blog post describing Arminian soteriology.
Pharaoh’s Hardened Heart: Who Was Responsible?
What does the Bible mean when it says that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart. Was Pharaoh an innocent pawn in God’s game? Or was he complicit in the hardening.
Arminianism: A Summary
This is the last in a series of posts on Arminianism, attempting to provide a summary of the doctrine of salvation and what it says about the nature of God.
Arminianism: The Persistence of Salvation
Can a true believer ever lose their salvation? Persistence of salvation is debated among Arminians, but classical Arminianism does support the possibility.
Arminianism: Foreknowledge, Predestination and Election
God’s foreknowledge and his election and predestination of believers are clearly taught in the Bible. But, for an Arminian, what do these terms mean?
Arminianism: It’s All About Grace
God’s grace, or favor, impacts our lives in a number of different ways. God’s grace enables us to believe. It enables us to be saved. It enables us to live holy and godly lives. It enables us to serve within his church. While some talk about different types of grace, as I will here, in reality they are all simply different ways that God’s grace is working in our lives, not different kinds of grace. God’s grace enables us to be what we could never be on our own.
Arminianism: Sovereignty and Free Will
This post will look at sovereignty and free will from an Arminian perspective, including how we understand the Calvinist perspective of these doctrines.
Arminianism: Atonement for All
The atoning sacrifice of Jesus was made for the sins of the whole world. But that atonement is only effective to those who believe.
Arminianism: The Doctrine of Total Depravity
You might be surprised to find that Arminianism and Calvinism are in complete agreement on the doctrine of total depravity; I know that I was. For many years I operated under the thought that while mankind was pretty bad, we were not so bad that we could not choose to accept God’s offer of salvation. But that is really the heresy of semi-Pelagianism. Calvinist and Arminian alike agree that mankind is totally corrupt and unable of himself to accept the gospel.
An Introduction to Arminian Soteriology
Arminianism is a system of belief that comes out of the Protestant Reformation, deriving from the teachings of Jacob Arminius, a Dutch theologian who lived from 1560 to 1609.