Featured A Biblical Defense of Arminianism #1

My thread #2 addresses this from the Word. Romans 4 makes clear faith is not a work worthy of a wage.

 

I'm just showing my views are defensible from scripture. That's all.

I do not see the problem of "merit" because the way into the Kingdom is humbling in many ways

1 Corinthians 1:20-21
20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

 

I think the problem you are having is one of perspective. If God gave us the ability to choose and Called us to choose, the act of choosing is in fact important. However, in the wisdom of God it is not a work deserving salvation. God merely credits us righteousness by the counsel of His own will.

If I may, you seem to think God doing everything to get us to choose, except the actual choosing, is logically impossible. I do not see it that way.

 

I'm not dodging the question, as much as, being truthful, I didn't get your point. I think I see now. Yes I agree. We have faith, that doesn't save. It is the merciful response by God to that faith that saves. Abrahams faith did not deserve a covenant without the LORD there actively crediting faith as righteousness. Sorry, just not used to that perspective.

 

If God calls them in His mercy and grace.

 

Not without God calling them by the Gospel and having mercy on them, so as not to harden them. Without God's desire to see us saved, we won't be saved. I just believe, from scripture, God's desire is always to see us saved apart from those he hardens to wrath like Pharaoh or Judas Iscariot. However, I do not think he chose to harden them to such from eternity or before birth.