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 |
B. B. Warfield on Arminians and Evangelicals (MP3)  |
Kim Riddlebarger - Christ Reformed Church |
Does God Elect Persons Based on Their Foreseen Faith?  |
John Hendryx |
Review of Roger Olsen's "Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities"  |
Carl Trueman |
Book Review: Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities by Roger Olson  |
J. Matthew Pinson |
Foreknowledge and Election  |
Roger Smalling |
The Mode of Divine Knowledge in Reformation Arminianism and Open Theism  |
Steven M. Studebaker - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Sep 2004) |
The Arminian Trump card  |
Steve Hays |
The Greatest!  |
Steve Hays |
The hands-off Theodicy  |
Steve Hays |
The Judgment of the National Synod of the Reformed Belgic Churches, assembled at Dort  |
John Bill (1619) |
"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 |
A Biblical Critique of Chuck Smith's Study: "Calvinism, Arminianism & The Word Of God"  |
Ray Kane |
A Brief Comparative Study of Arminianism and Calvinism  |
David N. Steele and Curtis Thomas |
A Brief Response to Ben Witherington  |
Dr. Sam Storms |
A Brief Treatise of Predestination:  |
by Anthonie Gylbie |
A Calvinistically Warped Mind - Warfield on John Miley  |
Kim Riddlebarger (pdf) |
A Comparison of Calvinism and Arminianism  |
David N. Steele and Curtis Thomas Chart contrasting the two on the five points of Calvinism |
A Confutation of the Dutch-Arminian Tenet of Universal Redemption  |
Theoph. Brabourn |
A Display of Arminianism  |
John Owen |
A Letter To The Rev. John Wesley Relative to His Pretended Abridgment of Zanchius on Predestination  |
Augustus Toplady (1740-1778) |
A Lutheran Response To Arminianism  |
Rick Ritchie |
All Equals Many, But Many Does Not Equal All  |
John G. Reisinger |
An Antidote Against Arminianism  |
Christopher Ness |
An Open Letter To Dave Hunt  |
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Answering the Critics of Monergism  |
John Hendryx |
Answers to Arminian Arguments  |
Rolaant McKenzie from by Gary F. Zeolla |
Are There Two Wills in God?  |
Francis Turretin |
Are You Sure You Like Spurgeon?  |
Alan Maben |
Armianism and the Atonement  |
John Murray |
Arminian Doctrine Exposed  |
Ralph Erskine |
Arminian Election  |
John Reisinger |
Arminian Errors  |
Rev. William MacLean, M.A. |
Arminian Theology Compared with Scripture  |
John Owen |
Arminianism  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
Arminianism and the Doctrines of Grace A Comparison  |
F. J. Serjeant |
Arminianism and the Paper Trail of Prophesied Prayers  |
James Anderson |
Arminianism Correct? Does Matthew 23:37 Teach That Arminianism is Correct?  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Arminianism Defined  |
{ahr - min' - ee - uhn - izm} |
Arminianism in the Pilgrimage of the Soul  |
John Murray |
Arminianism: The Golden Idol of Freewill  |
Augustus Toplady (1740-1778) |
Arminianism: The Road to Rome!  |
Augustus Toplady |
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? |
Arminians and God's Desires - 1 Timothy 2:3-4  |
Ra McLaughlin |
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. |
Calvin or Wesley Part II  |
Steve Hays |
Calvin or Wesley: Part I  |
Steve Hays |
Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism  |
John L. Girardeau |
Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism  |
John L. Girardeau |
Calvinism on Trial  |
Phil Johnson - A Response to Dave Hunt's Attack on the Doctrines of Grace |
Calvinism Recognizes the Power of the Holy Ghost  |
(Arminians reject power of Holy Spirit in bringing people to faith) L. R. Shelton |
Calvinism vs. Arminianism (Debate)  |
Victor Reppert, Steve Hays, Paul Manata, and Dominic Bnonn Tennant. |
Calvinism, Arminianism and Free Will Explained Clearly With 136 Verses  |
Greg Gibson |
Calvinism, Arminianism, and Eternal Security  |
Matt Perman |
Calvinism...the Truth  |
Rev. Robert C. Harbach |
Calvinist & Arminian Presuppositions  |
Joseph M. Gleason |
CHOSEN BUT FREE?  |
all credit for human salvation rests with God. This view is also called |
Closet Calvinists (.pdf)  |
Phil Johnson - How Arminians pre-suppose the doctrines of grace |
Conditional Election and Apostasy  |
Steve Hays |
Dave Hunt Misquoting Spurgeon: A Rebuttal to Hunt's Book, "What Love is This"  |
Colin Maxwell |
Did God Intend the Fall?  |
Steve Hays |
Did God Intend the Fall?  |
Steve Hays |
Differences between Semi-Pelagianism and Arminian Beliefs  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Do Humans Have More Freedom Than God  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Does God Love All People? Excerpt from Systematic Theology Lecture 43  |
Robert Lewis Dabney |
Emergent Pastor Erwin McManus Plays Dominoes with God’s Sovereignty  |
Ron Foster |
Eternal Election  |
Oscar B. Mink |
Fire and Water: Why Calvinism and Arminianism Simply Don't Mix (.pdf)  |
Kim Riddlebarger |
Hyper-Evangelism: Another Gospel, Though A Mighty Power  |
John Kennedy (1819-1884) - A critique of the Arminian message and method of evangelism |
I Thank God for You!  |
Mark Webb |
In Defence of Calvinism  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Independent Hands of God and Men: Providence in Classic Arminianism (MP3 & PDF)  |
Bruce Ware |
Introduction to Arminius  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
Is God Capricious? (.pdf)  |
R. Scott Clark |
Is the Glory of God at Stake in God's Foreknowledge of Human Choices? Jonathan Edwards' Response to Greg Boyd  |
John Piper |
JACOBUS ARMINIUS and ARMINIANISM  |
Gary Hand |
Libertas Peccatorum - Man's State of Sin After the Fall  |
Robert J. Olson - A Contrast of the Reformed and Evangelical Arminian Perspectives |
Monergism vs. Synergism  |
John Hendryx |
On Arminius, Confessional Subscription, and the Limits of Tolerance  |
R. Scott Clark |
One Arminian's Proof-Texts  |
Phil Johnson |
Pelagianism in the Formation and the Reformation of the Christian Church  |
Charles R. Biggs |
Piper on Predestined Prayers  |
James Anderson |
Predestination and the Saints' Perseverance, Stated And Defended  |
Rev. Russell Reneau. |
Regarding his assult on the Gospel of Grace  |
Timothy D. Oliver Director |
Reply to an Arminian  |
Oscar Mink |
Roger’s God  |
R. Scott Clark on Roger Olson's critique of Calvinism |
Some Roads back to Unity - What Do We Do Now?  |
John M. Frame |
The 'god' of Arminianism  |
Augustus Toplady |
The "All Men" Verses  |
John Calvin |
The Anti-Gospel: Perverting Christ's Gospel of Grace  |
Edward Hendrie |
The Arminian Concept of Election  |
Sam Storms |
The Arminian Controversy  |
Ferrell Griswold (.pdf) |
The Arminian Controversy and the Synod of Dort  |
S. VANDERGUGTEN |
The Arminian Controversy and the Synod of Dort  |
S. VANDERGUGTEN |
The Cure for Eternal Insecurity  |
John Samson Comments on John Chapter 6 |
The Five Points of Arminianism: Two Systems Contrasted  |
Loraine Boettner |
The Humanism of Arminianism  |
Oscar Mink |
The Leaven of Synergism  |
Arthur C. Custance |
The Narcissism of Evangelical Latitudinarianism  |
R. Scott Clark |
The Parable of the Drowning Man  |
John Hendryx |
The Teachings of James Arminius  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
The Universalistic Passages  |
Loraine Boettner Semi Pelagianism |
Trick vs. Free Offer  |
Ra McLaughlin - Did Jesus sincerely offer the Gospel to crowds if they were clearly reprobate and he k it? |
Various Christian Traditions Views on Perfection, Perfectionism  |
R L Shelton |
Wesleyan & Keswick Models of Sanctification  |
M. James Sawyer, Ph.D. |
Wesleyan Doctrine of Sinless Perfection  |
R. L. Dabney |
What Non Calvinists Should Know About Calvinist Beliefs  |
Colin Maxwell |
What Theology is This?  |
Dave Hunts Misrepresentation of God and Calvinism |
What Theology is This?  |
Dave Hunt’s Misrepresentation of God and Calvinism |
Who was Arminius?  |
Robert Godfrey |
Why I am still a Calvinist: The Objector of Romans 9  |
C Michael Patton |
Why I'm Not An Arminian (Well, One Reason)  |
Gene Bridges |
Why the Arminian God Is Not Just a Pansy but Is Also Just Plain Stupid  |
Peter Pike |
With certain Answers to the objections of the Adversaries of this Doctrine  |
Anthonie Gylbie (the dangers of rejecting Election) |
Wrestling With Wesley  |
Douglas Wilson |