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James Arminius on the Canon of Scripture
Those who know me, know I don’t endorse anything on the grounds that Arminius said it. However, since Arminius has recently been accused of holding to the wrong canon of Scripture or somehow being at odds with Sola Scriptura, I offer the following quotations from Arminius’ works, specifically Volume 2, his private disputations (link to…
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Arminius Against the Label of Semi-Pelagianism
In 1607 or shortly thereafter, Arminius wrote a Declaration of his sentiments on various subjects including Perseverance of the Saints. One of the articles under that heading is provided below (as found at this link): ARTICLE XXX (X.) It may admit of discussion, whether Semi-Pelagianism is not real Christianity. ANSWER In a certain lecture I…
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Arminius' Supposed Impact on Calvinism
Dan (aka GodIsMyJudge) has provided a post alleging another impact of Arminius on Calvinism (link to his post). The first part of his post I’ll pass over, since I feel my previous post (link to my previous post) has adequately addressed that issue. However, Dan states: TF notes well the WCF is open to supra,…
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Arminius' Impact on Calvinism
Dan (“GodIsMyJudge”) has an interesting post in honor of the 400th anniversary of Arminius’ death (link). One criticism I have, is that I think he overstates the significance of the infralapsarian wording of Dordt’s discussion of election. In fact, one could walk away from GodIsMyJudge’s post thinking that Arminius was an infralapsarian Calvinist who prevailed…