Agent causation - Society of Evangelical Arminians https://evangelicalarminians.org Not willing that any should perish Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:28:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://evangelicalarminians.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/footer-logo-60x60.png Agent causation - Society of Evangelical Arminians https://evangelicalarminians.org 32 32 224740200 William Burt Pope on Prevenient Grace and Free Will https://evangelicalarminians.org/william-burt-pope-on-prevenient-grace-and-free-will/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:31:29 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=27567 Please click on the link to access William Burt Pope on Prevenient Grace and Free Will. This is the second part of Pope’s treatment of prevenient grace, from pp. 363-67 of the second volume of…

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]]> 27567 Wayne Jackson, “Does Free Agency Nullify Personal Responsibility?” https://evangelicalarminians.org/wayne-jackson-does-free-agency-nullify-personal-responsibility/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:18:21 +0000 https://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=27191 A critic writes that if human beings have true “free agency,” then God could not punish them for their “sins.” He sees a conflict between the ideas of freedom and responsibility. Let us briefly consider…

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]]> 27191 Richard Coords, “Failure” https://evangelicalarminians.org/richard-coords-failure/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:00:28 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=22865 Frequently, Calvinists contend that if God really wanted for someone to be saved but who ultimately died in unbelief and perished, then God would have proven to be a failure, and therefore only an effectual…

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]]> 22865 Friday Files: Agent Causation https://evangelicalarminians.org/friday-files-understanding-free-will/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:00:51 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=22428 One of the mistakes that many make is the belief that the Calvinism/Arminianism debate is about free will vs determinism. In reality, the two positions are soteriologies, and the debate is really about the process…

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]]> 22428 Why Do Some Choose God and Others Reject Him? https://evangelicalarminians.org/why-do-some-choose-god-and-others-reject-him/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 07:00:12 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=21961 On his website, Arminian Perspectives, Ben Henshaw has a questions page at which he answers questions about Arminianism and Calvinism that visitors to his site pose in the comment section of the page. Here is a question…

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]]> 21961 God’s Sovereignty: Three Common Mistakes https://evangelicalarminians.org/gods-sovereignty-three-common-mistakes/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 07:00:45 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=21078 The following is a conversation that recently took place in my daughter’s middle school church group. The conversation does a good job highlighting three mistakes that we often make when we talk about the sovereignty…

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]]> 21078 Michael Egnor, “More Than Material Minds” https://evangelicalarminians.org/michael-egnor-more-than-material-minds/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 06:54:22 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=18722 As a Christian and a neuroscientist, I keep learning that to be human is to have a soul. Please click on the link to view Michael Egnor, “More Than Material Minds,” Christianity Today September 14, 2014.

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]]> 18722 Are There Things God Cannot Do? By Michael Brown https://evangelicalarminians.org/are-there-things-god-cannot-do-by-michael-brown/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:01:34 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=17349 This is always a very difficult question, and Dr. Brown handles it with a great deal of care and grace: https://askdrbrown.org/library/are-there-things-god-cant-do

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]]> 17349 Accepting/Rejecting Calvinism (Pt. 12: Free Will) https://evangelicalarminians.org/acceptingrejecting-calvinism-pt-12-free-will/ Thu, 17 Aug 2017 03:47:18 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=16906 This is from a series of posts which was copied with permission from Jordan Apodaca’s blog, “Thoughts & Anti-Thoughts,” which can be accessed here: https://jordanapodaca.wordpress.com/ This particular post, which allows comments, can be accessed here:…

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]]> 16906 Calvinist Sleight of Hand: A Brief Arminian Interaction With Wayne Grudem’s Arguments Against the Compatibility of Foreknowledge And Conditional Election https://evangelicalarminians.org/calvinist-sleight-of-hand-a-brief-arminian-interaction-with-wayne-grudems-arguments-against-the-compatibility-of-foreknowledge-and-conditional-election/ Mon, 03 Jul 2017 04:15:44 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=16575 A while back someone on the SEA discussion board referenced the following comments by Calvinist Theologian Wayne Grudem arguing against the compatibility of foreknowledge and conditional election.  Below is my brief interaction with this quoted…

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