The 5 Articles of Remonstrance (Arminianism)

[Eternally-Grateful]

Determinism.
Hard determinism.

What's the difference?

If the outcome is the same.

God,,,in Calvinist theology, is not a just God.

There is NO RECONCILIATION between
FOREKNOWLEDGE and PREDESTINATION

We either have free will or we do not.
Compatibilism is Not free will....
as much as some I've posted to seem to believe that it is.

predestination is based on foreknowqledge.

That allows God to remain a just God.

 

[Dizerner]

Oh really? And just where in the Bible to you read about that "sin nature"?

The body of sin and death, the old man, everyone dying in the first Adam, the flesh in which no dwells no good thing.

But I'm sure there's lots of great things in your flesh, right?

All over the place, self-righteous theology is everywhere condemned in Scripture.

Anyway, we've already been over this, I have an entire thread with hundreds of Scriptures.

Thread 'FOUR reasons I believe in the sinful nature. (original sin/ancestral sin/total depravity)'

Aug 17, 2023

PREFACE.

For those whom I have come across, who deny that humans have a sinful nature, that is a nature that is incapable of performing a righteously meritorious thought or action without supernatural undeserved grace from God, it all seems to stem back to the idea that, if God allows such a thing, it makes people victims instead of criminals, since no one can help sinning. And underneath that is the appeal to the idea that we can improve ourselves and polish up our genuinely good and pure nature underneath, a kind of self-esteem and self-improvement program to discover the...

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• Forum: Original Sin

 

[Eternally-Grateful]

Correct.
Did you see my post no. 33?

It's just a term to explain a conditon of mankind.
What we want to call it isn't so important...
what it REPRESENTS IS important.

yes people use different terms to do the same thing

 

[atpollard]

Determinism. Compatibalism (Soft Determinism)
Hard determinism.

What's the difference?

Adam
Sin
Fallen
Human Nature

... One claims they matter and the other claims that they make no difference.

• (a distinction that makes all the difference in the world.)