Arminianism
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system of theology proposed by Arminius. Having said this, read with caution.
Arminianism was an idea birthed of a man named James
Arminius. His ideas were put to list after his death. This list was compiled by
"The Remonstrant". Below is the list.
The Five Articles of the Remonstrants,
1610
The
Articles of the Remonstrants given below, though published by his followers a year after
his death, expresses the confession of Arminius and his followers.
1. That
God, by an eternal and unchangeable purpose in Jesus Christ his Son, before the
foundations of the world were laid, determined to save, out of the human race which had
fallen into sin, in Christ, for Christ’s sake and through Christ, those who through
the grace of the Holy Spirit shall believe on the same his son and shall through the same
grace persevere in this same faith and obedience of faith even to the end; and on the
other hand to leave under sin and wrath the contumacious and unbelieving and to condemn
them as aliens from Christ, according to the word of the Gospel in John 3:36, and other
passages of Scripture.
2. That, accordingly, Jesus Christ, the savior of the world, died
for all men and for every man, so that he has obtained for all, by his death on the cross,
reconciliation and remission of sins; yet so that no one is partaker of this remission
except the believers (John 3:16; 1 John 2:2).
3. That man has not saving grace of himself, nor of the working of
his free-will, inasmuch as in his state of apostasy and sin he can for himself and by
himself think nothing that is good—nothing, that is, truly good, such as saving faith
is, above all else. But that it is necessary that by God, in Christ and through his Holy
Spirit he be born again and renewed in understanding, affections and will and in his
faculties, that he may be able to understand, think, will, and perform what is truly good,
according to the Word of God (John 15:5).
4. That this grace of God is the beginning, the progress and the
end of all good; so that even the regenerate man can neither think, will nor effect any
good, nor withstand any temptation to evil, without grace precedent (or prevenient),
awakening, following and co-operating. So that all good deeds and all movements towards
good that can be conceived in through must be ascribed to the grace of God in Christ. But
with respect to the mode of operation, grace is not irresistible; for it is written of
many that they resisted the Holy Spirit (Acts 7 and elsewhere passim).
5. That those who are grafted into Christ by a true faith, and have
thereby been made partakers of his life giving Spirit, are abundantly endowed with power
to strive against Satan, sin, the world and their own flesh, and to win the victory;
always, be it understood, with the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit, with Jesus Christ
assisting them in all temptations, through his Spirit; stretching out his hand to them and
(providing only that they are themselves prepared for the fight, that they entreat his aid
and do not fail to help themselves) propping and upbuilding them so that by no guile or
violence of Satan can they be led astray or plucked from Christ’s hands (John 10:28).
But for the question whether they are not able through sloth or negligence to forsake the
beginning of their life in Christ, to embrace again this present world, to depart from the
holy doctrine once delivered to them, to lose their good conscience and to neglect grace,
this must be the subject of more exact inquiry in the Holy Scriptures, before we can teach
it with full confidence of our mind.
~The response to the Remonstrants were the articles of
Dordt, better known as "The Synod of Dordt".
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