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  |
John Newton |
The Main Difference Between Calvinist and Non-Calvinist Views of Saving Grace  |
John Hendryx |
Are There Two Wills in God?  |
John Piper - Divine Election and God's Desire for All to Be Saved |
Calvinist and Arminian Presuppositions  |
Joseph Gleason |
There Are Only Two Religions in the Whole World  |
John G. Reisinger |
Review of Roger Olsen's "Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities"  |
Carl Trueman |
Does God Elect Persons Based on Their Foreseen Faith?  |
John Hendryx |
B. B. Warfield on Arminians and Evangelicals (MP3)  |
Kim Riddlebarger - Christ Reformed Church |
Foreknowledge and Election  |
Roger Smalling |
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) |
"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 |
Closet Calvinists (.pdf)  |
Phil Johnson - How Arminians pre-suppose the doctrines of grace |
Why I am still a Calvinist: The Objector of Romans 9  |
C Michael Patton |
Calvinism...the Truth  |
Rev. Robert C. Harbach |
Emergent Pastor Erwin McManus Plays Dominoes with God’s Sovereignty  |
Ron Foster |
Calvinism, Arminianism and Free Will Explained Clearly With 136 Verses  |
Greg Gibson |
Calvinism vs. Arminianism (Debate)  |
Victor Reppert, Steve Hays, Paul Manata, and Dominic Bnonn Tennant. |
The hands-off Theodicy  |
Steve Hays |
The Arminian Trump card  |
Steve Hays |
What Non Calvinists Should Know About Calvinist Beliefs  |
Colin Maxwell |
Armianism and the Atonement  |
John Murray |
The 'god' of Arminianism  |
Augustus Toplady |
A Biblical Critique of Chuck Smith's Study: "Calvinism, Arminianism & The Word Of God"  |
Ray Kane |
Did God Intend the Fall?  |
Steve Hays |
Introduction to Arminius  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
Pelagianism in the Formation and the Reformation of the Christian Church  |
Charles R. Biggs |
Arminians and God's Desires - 1 Timothy 2:3-4  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Do Humans Have More Freedom Than God  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Calvin or Wesley: Part I  |
Steve Hays |
Calvin or Wesley Part II  |
Steve Hays |
Arminian Errors  |
Rev. William MacLean, M.A. |
Calvinist & Arminian Presuppositions  |
Joseph M. Gleason |
JACOBUS ARMINIUS and ARMINIANISM  |
Gary Hand |
A Comparison of Calvinism and Arminianism  |
David N. Steele and Curtis Thomas Chart contrasting the two on the five points of Calvinism |
The Cure for Eternal Insecurity  |
John Samson Comments on John Chapter 6 |
I Thank God for You!  |
Mark Webb |
Calvinism on Trial  |
Phil Johnson - A Response to Dave Hunt's Attack on the Doctrines of Grace |
In Defence of Calvinism  |
Charles Spurgeon |
A Display of Arminianism  |
John Owen |
Calvinism Recognizes the Power of the Holy Ghost  |
(Arminians reject power of Holy Spirit in bringing people to faith) L. R. Shelton |
Some Roads back to Unity - What Do We Do Now?  |
John M. Frame |
Wesleyan & Keswick Models of Sanctification  |
M. James Sawyer, Ph.D. |
CHOSEN BUT FREE?  |
all credit for human salvation rests with God. This view is also called |
Arminian Theology Compared with Scripture  |
John Owen |
The Leaven of Synergism  |
Arthur C. Custance |
An Antidote Against Arminianism  |
Christopher Ness |
Are You Sure You Like Spurgeon?  |
Alan Maben |
A Brief Treatise of Predestination:  |
by Anthonie Gylbie |
With certain Answers to the objections of the Adversaries of this Doctrine  |
Anthonie Gylbie (the dangers of rejecting Election) |
Who was Arminius?  |
Robert Godfrey |
Trick vs. Free Offer  |
Ra McLaughlin - Did Jesus sincerely offer the Gospel to crowds if they were clearly reprobate and he k it? |
Arminians and Conditional Election  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Arminians and God's Desires  |
Ra McLaughlin If 1 Timothy 2:3-4 says that God "desires everyone to be saved" (NRSV), then doesn't that mean that God wants everyone to be saved and will do what he can to bring that about? |
Eternal Election  |
Oscar B. Mink |
The Teachings of James Arminius  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
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 Correct? Does Matthew 23:37 Teach That Arminianism is Correct?  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Arminianism: The Golden Idol of Freewill  |
Augustus Toplady (1740-1778) |
Arminianism: The Road to Rome!  |
Augustus Toplady |
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 |
The Arminian Controversy  |
Ferrell Griswold (.pdf) |
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 |
Arminian Election  |
John Reisinger |
Answers to Arminian Arguments  |
Rolaant McKenzie from by Gary F. Zeolla |
An Open Letter To Dave Hunt  |
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Regarding his assult on the Gospel of Grace  |
Timothy D. Oliver Director |
A Lutheran Response To Arminianism  |
Rick Ritchie |
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. |
Arminianism  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
The Arminian Controversy and the Synod of Dort  |
S. VANDERGUGTEN |
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 |
Did God Intend the Fall?  |
Steve Hays |
The Greatest!  |
Steve Hays |
The Arminian Concept of Election  |
Sam Storms |
A Brief Comparative Study of Arminianism and Calvinism  |
David N. Steele and Curtis Thomas |
Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism  |
John Girardeau |
Arminianism and the Doctrines of Grace A Comparison  |
F. J. Serjeant |
A Calvinistically Warped Mind - Warfield on John Miley  |
Kim Riddlebarger (pdf) |
The Judgment of the National Synod of the Reformed Belgic Churches, assembled at Dort  |
John Bill (1619) |
All Equals Many, But Many Does Not Equal All  |
John G. Reisinger |
Arminianism and the Paper Trail of Prophesied Prayers  |
James Anderson |
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 |
Piper on Predestined Prayers  |
James Anderson |
Why the Arminian God Is Not Just a Pansy but Is Also Just Plain Stupid  |
Peter Pike |
Libertas Peccatorum - Man's State of Sin After the Fall  |
Robert J. Olson - A Contrast of the Reformed and Evangelical Arminian Perspectives |
A Brief Response to Ben Witherington  |
Dr. Sam Storms |
A Confutation of the Dutch-Arminian Tenet of Universal Redemption  |
Theoph. Brabourn |
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 |
The Narcissism of Evangelical Latitudinarianism  |
R. Scott Clark |
Why I'm Not An Arminian (Well, One Reason)  |
Gene Bridges |
Is God Capricious? (.pdf)  |
R. Scott Clark |
The Anti-Gospel: Perverting Christ's Gospel of Grace  |
Edward Hendrie |
Wesleyan Doctrine of Sinless Perfection  |
R. L. Dabney |
Fire and Water: Why Calvinism and Arminianism Simply Don't Mix (.pdf)  |
Kim Riddlebarger |
Roger’s God  |
R. Scott Clark on Roger Olson's critique of Calvinism |
One Arminian's Proof-Texts  |
Phil Johnson |
Conditional Election and Apostasy  |
Steve Hays |
Are There Two Wills in God?  |
Francis Turretin |
Independent Hands of God and Men: Providence in Classic Arminianism (MP3 & PDF)  |
Bruce Ware |
On Arminius, Confessional Subscription, and the Limits of Tolerance  |
R. Scott Clark |