Please click on the link to view Adam Roe, “The Crucial Thread of Prevenient Grace: A Wesleyan Perspective on Divine Drawing,” Firebrand (April 9, 2024) https://firebrandmag.com/articles/the-crucial-thread-of-prevenient-grace.
Faith
How Do You Understand the Radical Diversity of Beliefs from Some Well Intentioned People Who Want to Believe but Can’t Bring Themselves to Commit to Belief?
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…
Richard Coords, “Merit”
Do non-Calvinists believe that they have a hand in their own salvation? Calvinists sure think so. Is believing in Jesus something smart, wise and good? Calvinists believe that since it is, and since fallen is…
Why Does John 10:26 Say “You Do Not Believe Because You Are Not My Sheep” Instead of “You Are Not My Sheep Because You Do Not Believe?”
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…
Ben Henshaw, “Q & A on The Calvinist Claim That Salvation Conditioned on Faith Necessarily Implies Some Sort of Merited Contribution to Salvation”
Here is the question as originally posed along with a break down interaction below: Full Question: “So, let me reason this way, If prevenient grace is given to everyone, and my neighbors resist it, so they…
Ben Henshaw, “Perseverance of the Saints: Thirteen Part Series”
I thought it would be good to catalogue my series on perseverance into a single post for easy reference. After nearly sixteen years I think it still holds up pretty well. The only part I…
Mark K. Olson, “Opening Salvation’s Door: Acts 10:35 and John Wesley’s Inclusivism”
Abstract: This article explores John Wesley’s inclusivism regarding the future salvation of non-Christians, like Jews, Moslems, and other religious people. Reflecting on Acts 10:35, Wesley became convinced that the foundation for future salvation was not…
Video: Lucas Curcio and Dan Chapa, Defending Arminianism Episode 4: Conditional Election
This video may be found at this link on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F0lu8bZ573k. Defending Arminianism is a mini series in which Lucas Curcio and Dan Chapa defend and give a positive case for the essential Arminian doctrines…
Roy Ingle, “True Conversions”
[This post is from 2008 and refers to some things going on back then. It also contains some potentially controversial comments, and it should be remembered that posts appearing on SEA’s do not necessarily represent…
Richard Coords, “Lazarus”
The essence of the Calvinist gospel is this: I was dead and in need of a resurrection. (This combines the Calvinist doctrines of Total Inability and Irresistible Grace.) Naturally, then, Calvinists feel that Jesus’ raising…
Ben Henshaw, “Addressing the Calvinist Claim That Being Dead in Sin Necessarily Implies That Regeneration Precedes Faith”
We have a lot of material addressing and refuting this oft repeated Calvinist claim on the site, so I thought it would be good to archive them into a single post for easy reference: An…
Roy Ingle, “Keep on Keeping My Word”
Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.” John 8:51 (ESV) Several times in the book of John we encounter these words, “Keep my word.” For example notice…
Ben Henshaw, “An Arminian Response to C. Michael Patton’s ‘The Ultimate Balanced Guide to Arminianism (From a Calvinist)’: The Good, the Bad, and the [Very] Ugly”
You can find Patton’s original post here I was referred to this recent post by C. Michel Patton and thought I would respond to it. My comments can be found in-between sections of his post below:…
Robert E. Picirilli, Hold Fast: Hebrews 6:4-6 and the Possibility of Apostasy
Please click on the link to view the booklet Hold Fast: Hebrews 6:4-6 and the Possibility of Apostasy by Robert E. Picirilli from from Hopeway Publishing. From Hopeway’s description of the booklet: Hebrews is a…
Ben Henshaw, “Does Arminianism Imply That we Can Boast in Our Salvation Over Those Who do Not Believe?”
Out of all the arguments for Calvinism, this is the one that I probably hear the most. It comes in a variety of forms but usually imagines two people under the influence of prevenient grace,…
Roy Ingle, “Suffering and the Sovereignty of God”
[This article has been edited and adapted for inclusion here. Here is a link to the original post and comments on Roy Ingle’s blog, Arminian Today. The story Roy shared in this post is from a…
Could You Explain an Arminian Perspective of Regeneration and How It Can Be “Undone” If a Believer Forsakes the Faith?
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…
Allen Tennison, “What We Believe About … Salvation”
This article is part of a series on the Assembly of God Statement of Fundamental Truths. Please click on the link to view Allen Tennison, “What We Believe About … Salvation.”
The Good Fight Radio Show: “Grace, Faith, and Free Will with Dr. Robert Picirilli”
From the show description: On today’s episode we welcome special guest Dr. Robert Picirilli, former Dean and Professor at Welch College and former Freewill Baptist minister who has written extensively on how Calvinist doctrine is…
Richard Coords, “Faith”
Faith is common to man, which Calvinists readily acknowledge, though while offering the caveat of a distinction between what they define as human “natural faith” vs. divine “saving faith.” For the Calvinist, “natural faith” never…
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