Tag: Arminianism

  • One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism

    Recently I have witnesses renewed sniping between Calvinists and Arminians. I am used to this coming from “radical” Calvinists. (Think: John MacArthur.) But what has happened recently is coming from the Arminian camp. My own denomination called Calvinism a challenge to the gospel. I look at these recent flareups and then read Ephesians 4:1-11. Basically I think that we could…

  • Do We Have Too Much Time on Our Hands?

    When we get into these disagreements over Arminian and Calvinist theologies, is it because we have so much time on our hands? Would a little persecution be helpful? It just might pull us all together again, in my view. It’s not so much having discussions about differences, but it is really aggravating when someone just says a position in one…

  • Is Jesus THE Way?

    A recent post over at ScriptureZealot stirred my thinking. Some of the more incendiary comments have since been edited out, but it stirs me nonetheless. It raised the specter of hard-line Calvinism simply saying, “If you don’t believe in TULIP (and some very specific tenets of Calvinism) then you are preaching another gospel.” That’s the subtle undertone of the piece…