Remember the screen cap images of those Calvinist websites I posted? Here is the funny thing about them. The first one says to imitate God at the bottom of its webpage. This is actually frightening if you take it seriously. If you are to imitate God and you are a firefighter, then you could act just like God by choosing to save some and not save others, even when you had the power to save everyone. In that case, if you let others perish in the fire when you could have rescued them, most people would see you as a monster who was unloving and indifferent toward human life.
This is what you fail to grasp about the god of Calvinism, which is not the true God at all but a fairy tale version imagined in the minds of men. God is love. God is good. Scripture clearly says that the Lord is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Think about that. So when you criticize us for believing we have free will in choosing God, you fail to understand that this cannot even happen without God’s drawing or illumination. Free will exists, but it can only exist under God’s power in convicting the sinner and opening their eyes. They choose, but they could not even reach the point of choosing without God.
This is what many of us Arminians believe and what has long been part of classic Arminianism. What you are attacking is not Arminianism but Pelagianism.
In other words, in this discussion there are generally four groups: Hyper-Calvinists, regular Calvinists, Arminians (who believe free will in choosing God only exists under God’s conviction and drawing), and Pelagians.
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