He died for All the World (part 1)

A few weeks ago, i was attempting to dialogue and reason through the scriptures with a couple of anti-calvinists.

Full disclosure... i found the experience to be incredibly frustrating.

Not because they weren't calvinists, but rather because their anti-calvinistic stance caused them to completely mis-handle scripture on a level that cults and false religions do.

In their view, calvinism isn't just an error, but doctrines of demons.

So even the reformers where deemed as false teachers who shouldn't be listened to because they were calvinists - yet they still claimed to be protestants.

No matter how clear a verse was, they must completely deny the clarity of it, and would readily abandon basic reading comprehension in order to make sure that nothing of calvinism could be shown to be true.

Again, it was incredibly frustrating.

However, even though it was frustrating, it caused me to pause and think through some of the objections they brought to the table.

Not because their objections had any actual merit to them, as basic reading comprehension showed their claims to be false... but rather, because it was pretty clear that they had never actually thought through what their claims meant.

Arminians generally do not think through the implications of their beliefs from God's perspective.

Usually, the focus is only from man's perspective.

Even when Christ starts to reveal some of the hidden things of God, God's perspective when it comes to salvation, they are able to completely shift the focus from God... to man.

So i wanted to look at the implication of a few of these beliefs.

For the benefit of any readers, i'll break up the posts so that they don't go on forever (as i'm prone to do).

This could easily be a continuation of my Once Saved Always Saved? series, as some of these verses weren't addressed as yet.