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"[Arminians] ... say that the Augustinian tradition subordinates the love of God to the will of God ... But this is not what distinguishes the Augustinian tradition from the Arminian tradition. The distinction is between intensive and extensive love, between an intensive love that saves its loved ones, and an extensive love that loves everyone in general and saves no one in particular.
Or if you really wish to cast this in terms of willpower, it's the distinction between divine willpower and human willpower. Or, to put the two together, does God will the salvation of everyone with a weak-willed, ineffectual love, or does God love his loved ones with a resolute will that gets the job done?
The God of Calvin is the good shepherd, who names and numbers his sheep, who saves the lost sheep and fends off the wolf. The God of Wesley is the hireling, who knows not the flock by name and number, who lets the sheep go astray and be eaten by the wolf. Which is more loving, I ask?
Steve Hays
"What the Arminian wants to do is to arouse man's activity: what we want to do is to kill it once for all---to show him that he is lost and ruined, and that his activities are not now at all equal to the work of conversion; that he must look upward. They seek to make the man stand up: we seek to bring him down, and make him feel that there he lies in the hand of God, and that his business is to submit himself to God, and cry aloud, 'Lord, save, or we perish.' We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all. When he says, 'I can pray, I can believe, I can do this, and I can do the other,' marks of self-sufficiency and arrogance are on his brow."
C. H. Spurgeon
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The Remonstrant Articles (1610) ![]() |
Five Articles - The Arminian forerunner of the Synod of Dort |
The Arminian Controversy ![]() |
William Cunningham |
Arminian Controversy ![]() |
Sam Storms |
Discernment: How to Disagree Agreeably ![]() |
Denis D. Haack Learning how to think clearly and charitably is key. |
What is Pelagianism? ![]() |
R. Scott Clark |
What is Arminianism? ![]() |
Michael Marlowe |
What is Pelagianism? ![]() |
R. Scott Clark |
The Pelagian Captivity of the Church ![]() |
C. Matthew McMahon |
Pelagianism: The Religion of Natural Man ![]() |
Michael S. Horton |
Arminian Logic Fallacies ![]() |
Roger Smalling |
A Quiz For Your Arminian Friends ![]() |
Jay Banks |
The Arminian Concept of God's Will ![]() |
Sam Storms |
The 'god' of Arminianism ![]() |
C. Matthew McMahon |
Arminian Errors ![]() |
William MacLean - From the tract, Another Gospel |
A Chronological Survey of the Calvinism/Arminanism Controversy in the SBC (.pdf) ![]() |
Researched and Compiled by Timmy Brister |
Works of Arminius ![]() |
Archbishop Laud of England, which greatly contributed to the English Calvinists' desire to leave England in 1630. |
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Recommended Reading
Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities
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