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1. From personal experience, I was an Arminian and practiced such when I was first saved. I did not know doctrine, know the Scriptures, only what I was being taught. BUT, I was SAVED! All Arminians are not lost as your posts seem to suggest.

2. As I grew in the Scriptures (and thus my knowledge of God and His ways), this naturally this led me to the proper theology of Calvinism (this took years). Though when I was born again, I WAS born as a Calvinist (election), I DID NOT come to the "fuller" understanding of this till later (still growing). This is an important point: in a manner of speaking, there is a separation in being saved from how one may think they were saved (John 3:8). We DO NOT understand it all !!



Yes and yes! My experience has certainly been much the same, and praise God, He has brought me to a fuller understanding! Howard, have you perhaps read the article on Highway, A Defense of Reformed Apologetics? That sums up my thinking, that many Arminians are really "Calvinists" at heart, but their minds are clouded by a deceptive theology. The A/G church which I have been attending, for example, has in many ways a good understanding of God's sovereignty; for instance, the congregants honestly believe that God is really in control, and that we are not, and that our wills are overthrown. They just do not follow through with the logical, and Biblical, conclusion.


Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.