According to Arminianism, chapter 7 of Paul's Epistle to the Romans refers to the unbeliever and not the believer.
Man has the capability to choose or reject God even while unregenerate. God provides a "common grace" that is given to all men, that enables them to overcome the effects of the fall and gives sufficient power to exercise their "free will" in order to choose or reject God. God "predestines" to salvation only those people who He "foreknows" that in the future will choose Him through their own free will. God's action is dependent on the choice that a person makes. As a result of the ability to exercise "free will", even after becoming a Christian or becoming regenerate, a person can reject the faith, fall away, lose their salvation and be condemned to hell. Assurance of salvation cannot be known and people can lose and regain their salvation as they will, sometimes many times.
Gary Hand Jacobus Arminus and Arminianism
It seems that the whole progress of biblical revelation and church history through the ages has been forged out of the fire of controversy and the often angry struggles over truth. It is these great debates that have preserved the church from error and when the church grows lazy and fat, unwilling to be corrected, the world loses its only hope of salvation. It is never easy to correct, nor is it pleasant, but we are to "preach the truth in love." However, neither are we to pretend that our laziness, ignorance and apathy in defending the truth are really attempts to preserve the bond of unity. With Luther, we must say, "Unity wherever possible, but truth at all costs."Our attempt is to resurrect polemical debate as a means to the end of waking up a decadent and grossly unfaithful church and helping it make its way forward toward a second Reformation. And at a time when most Americans who claim to be Bible-believing Christians cannot, according to major studies, even articulate the basic message of the Gospel, what could be more relevant? Nevertheless, sometimes there are casualties of "friendly fire."
Michael Horton
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A Guide to Godly Disputation (.pdf)  |
John Newton |
A Comparison of Calvinism and Arminianism  |
David N. Steele and Curtis Thomas Chart contrasting the two on the five points of Calvinism |
The Leaven of Synergism  |
Arthur C. Custance |
Calvinism vs. Arminianism (Debate)  |
Victor Reppert, Steve Hays, Paul Manata, and Dominic Bnonn Tennant. |
The Main Difference Between Calvinist and Non-Calvinist Views of Saving Grace  |
John Hendryx |
Calvin or Wesley: Part I  |
Steve Hays |
Calvin or Wesley Part II  |
Steve Hays |
The Reformed Faith and Arminianism  |
John Murray |
Calvinism on Trial (.pdf)  |
Phil Johnson - A Response to Dave Hunt's Attack on the Doctrines of Grace |
Are There Two Wills in God?: Divine Election and God's Desire for All to Be Saved  |
John Piper - Divine Election and God's Desire for All to Be Saved |
There Are Only Two Religions in the Whole World  |
John G. Reisinger |
Free-Will and Merit Fairly Examined  |
Augustus Toplady - Or MEN NOT THEIR OWN SAVIOURS. |
Does God Elect Persons Based on Their Foreseen Faith?  |
John Hendryx |
B. B. Warfield on Arminians and Evangelicals (MP3)  |
Kim Riddlebarger - Christ Reformed Church |
Review of Roger Olsen's "Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities"  |
Carl Trueman |
Foreknowledge and Election  |
Roger Smalling |
Armianian Theory of Redemption  |
R. L. Dabney |
Armianian Theory of Redemption - Concluded  |
R. L. Dabney |
Book Review: Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities by Roger Olson  |
J. Matthew Pinson |
The Mode of Divine Knowledge in Reformation Arminianism and Open Theism  |
Steven M. Studebaker - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Sep 2004) |
The Judgment of the National Synod of the Reformed Belgic Churches, assembled at Dort  |
John Bill (1619) |
What Non Calvinists Should Know About Calvinist Beliefs  |
Colin Maxwell |
Pelagianism in the Formation and the Reformation of the Christian Church  |
Charles R. Biggs |
Do Humans Have More Freedom Than God  |
J.W. Hendryx |
"Calvinism, Arminianism & Creditism?"  |
Greg Gibson Who Gets the Credit for Your Decision for Christ: The Evangelist, You or God? How to Evangelize with Confidence In God's Power to Change Sinners |
Arminian Errors  |
Rev. William MacLean, M.A. |
Arminianism and the Atonement  |
John Murray |
JACOBUS ARMINIUS and ARMINIANISM  |
Gary Hand |
The Cure for Eternal Insecurity  |
John Samson Comments on John Chapter 6 |
I Thank God for You!  |
Mark Webb |
In Defence of Calvinism  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Calvinism Recognizes the Power of the Holy Ghost  |
(Arminians reject power of Holy Spirit in bringing people to faith) L. R. Shelton |
Wesleyan & Keswick Models of Sanctification  |
M. James Sawyer, Ph.D. |
CHOSEN BUT FREE?  |
Rev. James M. Harrison A Review of Dr. Norman Geisler's Chosen But Free: A Balanced View of Election - all credit for human salvation rests with God. This view is also called |
Arminian Theology Compared with Scripture  |
John Owen |
An Antidote Against Arminianism  |
Christopher Ness |
Are You Sure You Like Spurgeon?  |
Alan Maben |
Who was Arminius?  |
Robert Godfrey |
Eternal Election  |
Oscar B. Mink |
Bothersome Questions & Biblical Answers From a Former Arminian Baptist  |
John A. Kohler, III - Some excellent Scripture references to help answer questions about God's sovereignty, man's will and Divine election. A must read. |
Arminianism: The Golden Idol of Freewill  |
Augustus Toplady (1740-1778) |
What Theology is This?  |
Dave Hunts Misrepresentation of God and Calvinism |
The Arminian Controversy and the Synod of Dort  |
S. VANDERGUGTEN |
Various Christian Traditions Views on Perfection, Perfectionism  |
R L Shelton |
Arminianism Defined  |
{ahr - min' - ee - uhn - izm} |
Arminian Doctrine Exposed  |
Ralph Erskine |
The "All Men" Verses  |
John Calvin |
Does God Love All People? Excerpt from Systematic Theology Lecture 43  |
Robert Lewis Dabney |
Arminianism in the Pilgrimage of the Soul  |
John Murray |
Armianism and the Atonement  |
John Murray |
Arminian Election  |
John Reisinger |
Answers to Arminian Arguments  |
Rolaant McKenzie from by Gary F. Zeolla |
An Open Letter To Dave Hunt  |
Timothy D. Oliver |
A Lutheran Response To Arminianism  |
Rick Ritchie |
The 'god' of Arminianism  |
Augustus Toplady |
A Letter To The Rev. John Wesley Relative to His Pretended Abridgment of Zanchius on Predestination  |
Augustus Toplady (1740-1778) |
The Humanism of Arminianism  |
Oscar Mink |
Reply to an Arminian  |
Oscar Mink |
Predestination and the Saints' Perseverance, Stated And Defended  |
Rev. Russell Reneau. |
Wrestling With Wesley  |
Douglas Wilson |
Is the Glory of God at Stake in God's Foreknowledge of Human Choices? Jonathan Edwards' Response to Greg Boyd  |
John Piper |
The Five Points of Arminianism: Two Systems Contrasted  |
Loraine Boettner |
The Universalistic Passages  |
Loraine Boettner Semi Pelagianism |
Calvinism, Arminianism, and Eternal Security  |
Matt Perman |
The Arminian Concept of Election  |
Sam Storms |
A Brief Comparative Study of Arminianism and Calvinism  |
David N. Steele and Curtis Thomas |
Arminianism and the Doctrines of Grace A Comparison  |
F. J. Serjeant |
Hyper-Evangelism: Another Gospel, Though A Mighty Power  |
John Kennedy (1819-1884) - A critique of the Arminian message and method of evangelism |
Dave Hunt Misquoting Spurgeon: A Rebuttal to Hunt's Book, "What Love is This"  |
Colin Maxwell |
What Theology is This?  |
Dave Hunt’s Misrepresentation of God and Calvinism |
A Confutation of the Dutch-Arminian Tenet of Universal Redemption  |
Theoph. Brabourn |
Arminianism Restrictive of Divine Free Agency  |
Rev. Samuel J. Cassells |
The Doctrine of Predestination Stated, and Set in the Scripture Light  |
John Gill - In Opposition to Mr. Wesley’s Predestination calmly Considered |
Differences between Semi-Pelagianism and Arminian Beliefs  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Answering the Critics of Monergism  |
John Hendryx |
Monergism vs. Synergism  |
John Hendryx |
The Parable of the Drowning Man  |
John Hendryx |
A Calvinistically Warped Mind - Warfield on John Miley  |
Kim Riddlebarger (pdf) |
Closet Calvinists (.pdf)  |
Phil Johnson - How Arminians pre-suppose the doctrines of grace |
An Everlasting Task for Arminians  |
William Gadsby, 1773-1844 - or a letter to Rev. Edward Smyth, formerly of Trinity College, Dublin |
Emergent Pastor Erwin McManus Plays Dominoes with God’s Sovereignty  |
Ron Foster |
The hands-off Theodicy  |
Steve Hays |
A Biblical Critique of Chuck Smith's Study: "Calvinism, Arminianism & The Word Of God"  |
Ray Kane |
Why the Arminian God Is Not Just a Pansy but Is Also Just Plain Stupid  |
Peter Pike |
The Greatest!  |
Steve Hays |
A Brief Response to Ben Witherington  |
Dr. Sam Storms |
Why I'm Not An Arminian (Well, One Reason)  |
Gene Bridges |
The Arminian Trump card  |
Steve Hays |
Is God Capricious?  |
R. Scott Clark |
All Equals Many, But Many Does Not Equal All  |
John G. Reisinger |
Wesleyan Doctrine of Sinless Perfection  |
R. L. Dabney |
Fire and Water: Why Calvinism and Arminianism Simply Don't Mix (.pdf)  |
Kim Riddlebarger |
One Arminian's Proof-Texts  |
Phil Johnson |
Conditional Election and Apostasy  |
Steve Hays |
Are There Two Wills in God?  |
Francis Turretin |
Calvinism...the Truth  |
Rev. Robert C. Harbach |
Arminianism and the Paper Trail of Prophesied Prayers  |
James Anderson |
Piper on Predestined Prayers  |
James Anderson |
Independent Hands of God and Men: Providence in Classic Arminianism  |
Bruce Ware |
Calvinism, Arminianism and Free Will Explained Clearly With 136 Verses  |
Greg Gibson |
Did God Intend the Fall?  |
Steve Hays |
A Display of Arminianism  |
John Owen |
Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism  |
John Girardeau |
Evangelical Arminians: Option or Oxymoron?  |
Michael S. Horton |
The Socinian Controversy  |
William Cunningham |
The Children in the Hands of the Arminians  |
B.B. Warfield |
The Gloves are Off: William Craig Lane offers his bare-knuckle opinion of Calvinism  |
Steve Hays |
Depravity of the Will  |
W. E. Best |
God Dethroned by Free Will  |
W. E. Best |
Whitefield's Letter to Wesley  |
George Whitefield |
Do the words “all” or “all men” refer to the entire human race without exception? (.pdf)  |
Rev. Angus Stewart |
Roger Olson, Calvinism, Paradox, Created Analogies, and Self-Defeating Arguments  |
Paul Manata |
Testing Roger Olson's Depth of Exegesis: 1 Timothy 2:4  |
James White |
Comparing Libertarian and Compatibilistic Beliefs on the Human Will (.pdf)  |
Scott Christensen |