How Firm Our Foundation
Let me ask you a theological question: Are you born again which results in your believing in Christ, or does your faith in Christ result in your being born again? Maybe you think I’m just playing with words, but how you answer that question significantly affects what you believe about man’s sin, God’s salvation, and more important, your eternal security.
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Thanks for posting this. I recently started meeting with some professing Christian men at work each Thursday at lunch time. Turns out they are all Arminians. One young fella was apparently SHOCKED!!! to actually meet a person who believes in the doctrines of grace. I shall take a copy of Mac’s message to the meeting this week.
Manfred,
May the Lord use this message for His glory among your co-workers.
So, Manfred, here’s my question: is it possible for a person to be both a Christian and an Armenian?
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Of course – nationality makes no difference
(Armenia is a small country in Europe; Arminian is the heretical theology that sprouted from Pelagious.)
Seriously, I think most everyone who is redeemed is, at first, Arminian to some degree – because we use our senses to determine what has happened. But as a saint matures, he discovers by God’s grace he was saved and that his faith was a gift and all the work was done by Christ and His Spirit. Then he realizes the error of Arminianism.
Yet everyone continues through this life with imperfect perception and imperfect theology. If one has been born again, he will have biblical faith in the biblical Jesus, no matter what he calls himself. But an honest look at the Jesus of Arminianism reveals a lesser Jesus who saves nobody and is not the Christ.