https://evangelicalarminians.org/the-reciprocal-dynamic-of-grace/ Not willing that any should perish Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:21:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://evangelicalarminians.org/the-reciprocal-dynamic-of-grace/#comment-3680 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:07:04 +0000 #comment-3680 […] Arminianism, along with many Catholic view and Eastern Orthodoxy, counter with synergism, which essentially means “working together.” In synergism, God initiates and offers grace, and man must cooperate with his free will. Salvation essentiallly occurs by the acts of both parties, God in giving and man in receiving, with the idea of man’s reception being conceived of as an act of a human free will. In this view, repentance and faith are integral to the beginning of salvation, rather than a result of a beginning accomplished simpy by God alone. Some would characterize synergism as being a 50-50 view, although most synergists would disagree. In any case, synergism relies on man cooperating with God’s grace, so that God does part (certainly the superior part) and man does part (an inferior, receptive part). Eric Landstrom of the Society of Evangelical Arminians gives this explanation: […]

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