StanJ
Lifelong student of God's Word.
The key word here Oz, would be 'seems', but you ought to know me well enough by now to know that I don't define myself by labels like you're trying to do here.OzSpen said:Therefore, Stan, that seems to make your beliefs Semi-Pelagian since you leave the initiative for salvation with human beings and not with God.
Here is a summary of Arminius's understanding on 'Foreknowledge and Predestination'. Arminius did believe in predestination, but of a different kind to that of Calvin on predestination.
So don't you believe in predestination of any kind?
Oz
Obviously God initiated salvation, and he draws us to Jesus, but it is our choice as to whether we accept Jesus or not. It's pretty simple, and I haven't said anything that would justify your conclusions. I also don't label myself as an Arminian. If you only understand people based on old doctrine, then you really don't understand people. I believe in predestination exactly as it is defined in the New Testament and as I have already indicated to Angelina. There is no other kind of predestination that would make us as puppets. We made have been programmed to know God as Paul teaches in Romans 1, but that is as far as it goes.
Our free will as a matter of submission to God or not. Always has been, always will be.