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Puritan Board Freshman
I have never been closely engaged by others in talking about Calvinism but here's my first one.
Here's an interesting conversation started by a Wesleyan-Arminian friend of mine and his understanding of foreknowledge, free-will etc.
His understanding is that repentance and faith cannot be classified as works; that God foreknows, but does not always intervene, and he bases these as his arguments why free-will makes common sense: if God does not intervene in everything; shouldn't Man be personally responsible for repentance and faith?
One of his broad-evangelical friends asked him as well: If God knows everything beforehand, why does He allows "free-will"?
How can his arguments be answered? Thank you!
Here's an interesting conversation started by a Wesleyan-Arminian friend of mine and his understanding of foreknowledge, free-will etc.
His understanding is that repentance and faith cannot be classified as works; that God foreknows, but does not always intervene, and he bases these as his arguments why free-will makes common sense: if God does not intervene in everything; shouldn't Man be personally responsible for repentance and faith?
One of his broad-evangelical friends asked him as well: If God knows everything beforehand, why does He allows "free-will"?
How can his arguments be answered? Thank you!