The Arminian View (1 of 2 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 21 THE ETERNAL PURPOSE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Arminius was a Dutch theologian whose views conflicted with those of Calvin who lived a generation earlier in the 16th century. His followers became known as Remonstrants, from the name of a petition called a Remonstrance, which was presented to the States of Holland and Friesland in 1610.

According to Van Gildel their views were set forth in five articles:

(1) Election is conditioned on divine foreknowledge of faith;

(2) Redemption was for all men;

(3) Man is unable to attain saving faith except through regeneration;

(4) Grace is not wholly efficient nor irresistible;

(5) Regenerates are able by divine grace to resist all temptation, but may not do so and so may be lost.²

2          H. O. VanGlider, Election And,.. (Findlay, Ohio: Dunham Publishing Co., 1956), pp. 15, 16.

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