UTTERLY PASSIVE
Arminians...
A [g]ospel which teaches that the difference between the man in heaven
and the man in hell is something that the man in heaven did on his own
steam and apart from the grace of God is a blasphemous parody of the
True Gospel. The man in hell simply did not use his Almighty Will
properly and the man in heaven did.... this is a man-centered
works-based [g]ospel which is not good news at all.
Man does not find it within himself to properly coordinate his
decisions and thus choose to save himself. A man is only saved if the
LORD gives him the gift of faith. Arminians teach that faith is what man
does independent from God and that God is waiting on man to straighten
up and fly right. Scripture teaches that man is dead, in need of new
life, and thus unable to help himself. Scripture also teaches that faith
is a gift from God and not something that man must locate within his
thoroughly wretched self. One [g]ospel is all about what man does and
that system hates the fact that faith is given to man as a gift. The
True Gospel is about what God gives to man as a gift, not what man
chooses to do as an independent agent. One is works-righteousness and
one is salvation by grace alone. The reason that faith is not a work is
because it's not something that man does, but rather something that man
receives as a gift. The rebel sinner who is guilty of high treason and
who lives on death row has one option: receive mercy. Man is utterly
passive in salvation, lest any man should boast.
In Christ,
Dennis Keesee