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Originally Posted by JBaldwin  If you live like a Calvinist, you will trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. You will acknowledge Him in all your ways, and God will direct your path.
If you live like an Arminian, you will trust in your free will with all your heart, you will lean on your own understanding, you will acknowledge your free will in all your ways, and your free will direct your path. |
Putting this response along with Bruce's response above gives a good sense of what I perceive they're trying to mainly emphasize with this quote. I'm sure it's used by others in the other ways mentioned as well. The danger I think is what is mentioned here by JBaldwin, and I think it ought to breed a serious caution due to it's implications. For, if one lives like it is all up to them, they tend to look inward for their resource, rather then humbly looking outward to God. In their rightful defense against human passivity, they often run to human activity at the expense of a sustained dependence upon God. Their prayer life becomes dry, and their egos become proud. I think God often lets these sorts of individuals run in that direction as far as their rope will allow them, and then, when they realize that "apart from him they can do nothing", then God shows them that it is "not by horses and chariots, but by his might" that any christian race is run. Calvinism keeps this balance appropriately, in my opinion.
Blessings!