Featured A Biblical Defense of Arminianism #1

I think 1 cor 1.21 and Eph 13-14 Answers that.

 

Apparently not, because if you knew the answer, you would have so stated. And referencing two chapters - that is like saying "it is in there somewhere."

I think "automatic salvation" is false doctrine. As evidence, I offer Matthew 13 and soils #2 and #3.

 

I've not heard of ' automatic salvation ' ? what is that ?

 

It is the idea that when we put our faith in Christ, we are instantly and automatically saved. It leaves out scripture after scripture that teaches it is God alone who decides whether to credit our faith as righteousness and places us into Christ. The action of God to "give to Christ" the individual (set him or her apart in Christ) is not mentioned in the bogus "automatic salvation" view.

Here is my statement again:

Lets look at just one of the many statements from the OP:

The evidence thus adds up to a scriptural understanding in which God wants all saved, synergism is a valid interpretation of scripture, and we do not do a good work by putting faith in Jesus Christ. Thus, there cannot be boasting in synergism. ​

Lets say a person hears and understanding the gospel and then puts their faith in Christ. Ok so far.
Now does this result in "automatic salvation" where the person is immediately born anew, becoming a new creation, a child of God. Or does "the will of God" play a part, i.e. He alone decides whether to credit your faith as righteousness or not?

I think Arminians say salvation occurs automatically when you trust in Christ.

 

Did not read the thread past this post, so maybe this point has already been made...

Your argument is basically that one has no free will to un-choose Christ.

 

So, no free will and irresistible grace.

 

Well, something is irresistible if you can't unsave yourself.

 

Let me ask you this... Your first birth, was that synergistic?

 

It can't really be called a 'birth' then, can it?

 

If God's will is to keep us (as in a locked jail cell) by protecting our faith, then we are "irresistibly" kept in His kingdom. What is not "irresitible" is God's invitation and draw via the gospel. Otherwise soils #2 and #3 would have been compelled to remain faithful, rather than allowed to fall away.

1) Do we put ourselves into Christ (synergistically) or does God alone put us into Christ (Monogergistically.)
2) Can we believe all the "right" things sincerely such that God is compelled to save us? Or is salvation by grace?
3) When scripture repeatedly refers to "his" faith or "your" faith, God is referring to our faith in His Christ, as determined by God. It may be little, you of little faith, or it might be large, God decides. Only when God alone determines to credit our faith as righteousness, does God alone place us into Christ.

 

Saving faith is our faith that God alone credits as righteousness. Synergists wrongly believe if we believe the "right" things, with the "right" intensity, God is compelled to save us. That of course is hogwash. Salvation is by grace. In other words our faith does not earn or merit salvation, it is but a filthy rag to God. He turns our worthless faith into righteousness. Our salvation does not depend on our willingness to be saved, or what we do (works) to be saved, but on God alone. He requires that we believe in the One He sent, but all that accomplishes is to be considered.

 

Fine. Just know you have to rob divine descriptors of their real meaning to fit them into your paradigm. That's my point.

My other point is that you cannot escape the conclusion that the reason one person is saved, and another is not, is because one is intrinsically better than another, and Redemption is according to merit, and not election.