Arminius Nine Questions for Professors of Divinity to Answer is a 9 chapter work probing people who claim salvation about issues between Calvinism and Arminianism.
Nine Questions for Professors of Divinity to Answer
By James Arminius
1. Election
2. God’s Decrees
3. Original Sin
4. Depravity
5. Faith
6. Faith
7. Assurance of Salvation
8. Perseverance
9. Christian Perfection
Excerpt from the work
1. Which is first, Election, or Faith Truly Foreseen, so that God elected his people according to faith foreseen?
1. Is the decree “for bestowing Faith on any one,” previous to that by which is appointed “the Necessity of Faith to salvation?”
ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION
The equivocation in the word “Election,” makes it impossible to answer this question in any other manner, than by distinction. If therefore “Election” denotes “the decree which is according to election concerning the justification and salvation of believers.” I say Election is prior to Faith, as being that by which Faith is appointed as the means of obtaining salvation. But if it signifies “the decree by which God determines to bestow salvation on some one,” then Faith foreseen is prior to Election. For as believers alone are saved, so only believers are predestinated to salvation.
But the Scriptures know no Election, by which God precisely and absolutely has determined to save anyone without having first considered him as a believer. For such an Election would be at variance with the decree by which he hath determined to save none but believers.
More works against/for Calvinism
- Adams Decisional Regenerationalism
- Arminius Nine Questions for Professors of Divinity to Answer
- Boettner – Limited Atonement
- Bryson, George – The Dark Side of Calvinism
- Fortner, Don – What Does It Mean to be Reformed
- Ness Christopher An Antidote to Arminianism
- Spurgeon A Defense of Calvinism
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