tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post4624797955834299884..comments2024-03-17T10:13:20.234-04:00Comments on Common Denominator: Calvinism and Arminianism: What's the Difference?Ken Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-9217577587264834782013-01-05T12:38:57.492-05:002013-01-05T12:38:57.492-05:00Thanks for this summary.Thanks for this summary.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-77460404890210564162013-01-04T12:47:02.203-05:002013-01-04T12:47:02.203-05:00Arminianism 'works' in an 18th Century env...Arminianism 'works' in an 18th Century environment where everyone is more or less a Christian, but not everyone is in the church, due to population shifts, the church not welcoming the poor properly, having to work, whatever. The church (in this case the first Methodists) goes to them, offers them the Gospel, and they accept it, or they don't.<br /><br />I'm not sure it works in our world. What sort of God gives a child to some illiterate family in a remote corner of Saudi Arabia, where they never meet a Christian, then chucks them into hell for rejecting the Gospel? Calvinism no longer worked post-Industrial Revolution Europe, hence the effective takeover of Arminianism. I think the church is now drifting towards something like universalism; classic Arminianism at least doesn't fit the world people find themselves in any more.Robert Brenchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-73137474149023104822013-01-03T15:15:30.144-05:002013-01-03T15:15:30.144-05:00This is how Christians understand their "fait...This is how Christians understand their "faith" and who is "in" or "out". Organizations must define their boundaries, as nation's define their borders and individual's their values.....Angie Van De Merwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617299120618867829noreply@blogger.com