When this secondary issue arises amongst Christians you often have two ill informed parties going at it trying to disprove the other one. If some one asked me, "Steve, are you a Calvinist or an Armenian?" I would have to say "yes."
Here's why... The Armenian says you can reject God and turn from God after knowing him and serving him faithfully or unfaithfully and loose your salvation. In the Bible we see this many different times. Like when the apostle Paul makes comments in his letters that the people are turning from the God who saved them.
Then there's the Calvinist who says once you have had a true conversion and God saves you, you can't loose your salvation because you aren't going to walk away from him. Their examples would be Judas the betrayer of Jesus but also verses that call us elect.
There's obviously a whole lot more to both sides. But keep this in mind: I have yet to see a debate where you have two equally equipped theologians hash it out to see the results.
Here's the thing. Don't make Calvinism or Armenianism a hill to die on. Strong biblical evidence can be found for both sides.... If one argument was stronger than the other there would be no argument.
Then there's the group that argue about the guy who's been in the church but ain't now a part of it.... PART 2
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Saturday, 13 April 2013
Sides: Calvinism vs. Armenianism
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