Gene Brode, Jr. - Society of Evangelical Arminians https://evangelicalarminians.org Not willing that any should perish Sun, 28 May 2017 21:47:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://evangelicalarminians.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/footer-logo-60x60.png Gene Brode, Jr. - Society of Evangelical Arminians https://evangelicalarminians.org 32 32 224740200 Compatibilism and Wireless Technology, Part 2: The Wireless Transmitter Analogy https://evangelicalarminians.org/compatibilism-and-wireless-technology-part-2-the-wireless-transmitter-analogy/ Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:52:36 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=12465 In this post I hope to show by way of analogy the incompatibility of soft determinism with human freedom. I will first lay out the technological terms and give a brief explanation of how they work. I…

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]]> 12465 Compatibilism and Wireless Technology, Part 1: Why Calvinism’s Explanation for Human Freedom and Responsibility Doesn’t Satisfy Me https://evangelicalarminians.org/compatibilism-and-wireless-technology-part-1-why-calvinisms-explanation-for-human-freedom-and-responsibility-doesnt-satisfy-me/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:03:30 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=12463 In this post I will discuss why Compatibilistic Calvinism really offers no satisfactory explanation of how genuine human choice (in the common understanding of the word) is possible within the scheme of divine determinism. William Birch…

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]]> 12463 Calvinism vs. Arminianism: Should We Tell Unbelievers That God Loves Them? https://evangelicalarminians.org/calvinism-vs-arminianism-should-we-tell-unbelievers-that-god-loves-them/ Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:01:18 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=10575 Last week on the way to my small group Bible study at church, I had an interesting conversation with a pastor friend who’s a Calvinist. I said something about hoping my son would get saved…

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