biblelighthouse
Puritan Board Junior
You don't have to use Calvinism to defeat Arminianism.
You can use Arminianism to defeat Arminianism!
It is incoherent and self-defeating.
Arminians do not believe that God chooses who will go to heaven and who will go to hell. Rather, they think he just "looks into the future" and merely "foreknows" who will choose to go where. But consider this:
God could have created "World A" a certain way, and strictly according to Arminian "logic", simply "foreknow" that the Adam & Eve in THAT world would choose not to sin. Thus, by their own free will, the fall would never have occurred, and sin would not have entered the human race. All would go to Heaven.
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God could have created "World B" a different way, and strictly according to Arminian "logic", simply "foreknow" that the Adam & Eve in THAT world would choose to sin. Thus, by their own free will, the fall would occur, the entire human race would fall into sin, and billions would justly go to hell.
God had the option to create EITHER world (or any of a million other conceivable worlds).
And WHICH world did GOD CHOOSE to create? Clearly, He CHOSE to create the second world, not the first one. That is the world in which we all live.
Thus, Arminian "logic" is totally self-defeating and inconsistent, because even assuming Arminian free-will and God's mere foreknowledge, it is STILL logically obvious that God Chooses whether people go to heaven or hell.
God didn't have to put Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden. He could have put Steve & Sally there. Or He could have put Bob & Jayne there. If you think that someone other than Adam wouldn't have fallen, then you have to admit that God chose for the fall to occur. But if you agree that anyone would have fallen, whether it was Adam, Steve, or Bob, then what has happened to your "free will" now?
Either way, Arminianism destroys itself, even without bringing Calvinism into the argument.
I plan to soon post an article to this effect on www.biblelighthouse.com. --- Does anyone have any good recommendations for more thoughts/materials I could add to this article, regarding how Arminianism refutes itself?
Thank you!
You can use Arminianism to defeat Arminianism!
It is incoherent and self-defeating.
Arminians do not believe that God chooses who will go to heaven and who will go to hell. Rather, they think he just "looks into the future" and merely "foreknows" who will choose to go where. But consider this:
God could have created "World A" a certain way, and strictly according to Arminian "logic", simply "foreknow" that the Adam & Eve in THAT world would choose not to sin. Thus, by their own free will, the fall would never have occurred, and sin would not have entered the human race. All would go to Heaven.
-or-
God could have created "World B" a different way, and strictly according to Arminian "logic", simply "foreknow" that the Adam & Eve in THAT world would choose to sin. Thus, by their own free will, the fall would occur, the entire human race would fall into sin, and billions would justly go to hell.
God had the option to create EITHER world (or any of a million other conceivable worlds).
And WHICH world did GOD CHOOSE to create? Clearly, He CHOSE to create the second world, not the first one. That is the world in which we all live.
Thus, Arminian "logic" is totally self-defeating and inconsistent, because even assuming Arminian free-will and God's mere foreknowledge, it is STILL logically obvious that God Chooses whether people go to heaven or hell.
God didn't have to put Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden. He could have put Steve & Sally there. Or He could have put Bob & Jayne there. If you think that someone other than Adam wouldn't have fallen, then you have to admit that God chose for the fall to occur. But if you agree that anyone would have fallen, whether it was Adam, Steve, or Bob, then what has happened to your "free will" now?
Either way, Arminianism destroys itself, even without bringing Calvinism into the argument.
I plan to soon post an article to this effect on www.biblelighthouse.com. --- Does anyone have any good recommendations for more thoughts/materials I could add to this article, regarding how Arminianism refutes itself?
Thank you!