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Taking Calvinism and Arminianism to the Woodshed
To be one or the other, you still have to ignore or explain away parts of the Bible
The two main theological systems of protestant Christianity have clashed for years, and we seem no closer to solving the issue now than 500 years ago.
The point of either one is to put the entirety of the gospel into perspective. They both try to make something very complex into something easy to understand, which has some value. Both have strengths and weaknesses.
Both try to explain the greatest mysteries of life.
What is the nature of God?
What is the nature of man?
What is the nature of the relationship between God and man?
Trying to break that into five short points is an oversimplification, to say the least.
I can see how both are justified Biblically. I could make a decent Biblical case for either one, or build a Biblical case to refute either one.
The problem, as I see it, is either one has to explain away some of the Bible. The same scripture that says “whoever will,” also says “God chose you.” The interesting thing to me is that Biblical…
