A Review of: "Calvinism, Arminianism & The Word of God: A Calvary Chapel Perspective" By: Chuck Smith
Recently a Pastor friend of mine shared with me an article written by the founder of the Calvary Chapel Denomination Chuck Smith. It was written with the intention of addressing the Calvinism vs. Arminianism issue for all of the Calvary Chapel Churches. To see the article CLICK HERE . First of all I like the format of the paper in which he clearly set out to address both views and then clarify the Calvary Chapel stance. A couple of things that I noticed I want to point out below: Overall he did a fair job conveying the Arminian view, however I am not sure why he seemed to be confused on a couple of things he said. Over the year Arminius’ beliefs have been misrepresented and demonized by Calvinists so I can see why he made a few false assumptions regarding their beliefs. 1. He stated, “Arminius believed that the fall of man was not total, maintaining that there was enough good left in man for him to will to accept Jesus Christ unto salvation.” This is actually a descript...
re: evidence for Jesus wmcraig v ben shapiro
ReplyDeleteneither of the two debators brought forward an i⁶ndisputable argument proving the existance of Jesus or for that matter God.
The old testament bible was just one further account (albeit a written one) attempting to explain the origins of the world that humans inhabited.It was by no means the first account and it plaguerized previous religious beliefs regarding the sun god,the virgin birth the winter solace,three days of death, the resurrection, the twelve deciples etc etc!-
It is amazing that in this day and age billions of people supposedly adhere in various degrees to a belief in an imaginary super-natural being
concocted by bronze age medieval deluded authors!! Nothing can take the place of rational empirical scientific evidence as to our world's origins and all that's on it, and to the infinite expanse of space in which it exists.