How Sovereign is God? Articles
Arminianism is the work of the flesh and appeals to the desire of the flesh to condition salvation on the sinner. Even when this flesh says “but my faith is not a work”, the flesh is deceived and deceiving, because faith in faith as the difference means the righteousness of Christ is not all the difference. It is not all of grace. It takes man to do something to make the difference to be saved. Romans 9:11–that the purpose of election might stand, not of works”. If there is No “election of grace” (Romans 11:5), there is no grace.
When Paul would not call the legalists his brothers, that was not evidence that Paul never knew grace in his own life. Rather, it means that Paul was ashamed of having himself been an “elder brother”, and knew that he was lost then. Read Philippians 3 again. He didn’t say he learned some more stuff. He said that as long as he had the righteousness to be found in the law (conditioning salvation on the sinner), that he was lost.
Can God Make Evil and Be Just?
Can God Be Fair and Not Give All People a Chance?
Does God Hide Truth From People?
Does God Hear the Prayer of the Unconverted or Evil People?
Man’s Will Free Yet Bound & Myth of Free Will
Predestination – All Christians Believe in it, But How?
The Sovereignty of God is the stumbling block on which thousands fall and perish; and if we go contending with God about His sovereignty it will be our eternal ruin. It is absolutely necessary that we should submit to God as an absolute sovereign, and the sovereign of our souls; as one who may have mercy on whom He will have mercy and harden whom He will. — Jonathan Edwards
