Here's The Thing
Monday, June 20, 2016 at 04:34PM
Embryo Parson in 39 Articles, Anglo-Calvinism, Anglo-Catholicism, Caroline Divines, Eastern Orthodoxy, English Reformation, Evangelical and Catholic, Grace, Heaven, Holiness, John Calvin, Justification By Faith, Predestination and Free Will, Roman Catholicism, The Gospel, Traditional Anglicanism

With Augustine, Calvin, and the Reformed, I believe that no one becomes a Christian "unless the Father draw him."  Thus far my agreement with the Edwardine/Cranmerian phase of the English Reformation.

But I also understand why English Arminianism took issue with the Augustinian and Reformed doctrines of grace.  "For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."  Thus my affirmation of Anglican Arminianism.

I am entertaining thoughts of ways these Scriptures can actually be harmonized without resorting either to Calvinism or Arminianism.  Stay tuned.

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