FREE WILL vs. THE BIBLE by Dr. Reg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualNLs/freewill.htm Free will is represented by Arminianism teaches below. Arminianism teaches: ... and as many as believed were ordained to eternal life. THE BIBLE TEACHES: AND AS MANY AS WERE ORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED. (Acts 13:48) Arminianism teaches: For many are called, but few choose. THE BIBLE TEACHES: FOR MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN. (Matt. 22:14) Arminianism teaches: Make your decision for Christ.: THE BIBLE TEACHES: All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. (Matt. 11:27) Arminianism teaches: I accepted Jesus as my personal saviour. THE BIBLE TEACHES: Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you (John 15:16). Also: But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mothers womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me. (Pauls testimony in Galatians 1:15,16) Arminianism teaches: God cant save you unless you let him, it is your choice. THE BIBLE TEACHES: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy...Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. (Romans 9:16, 18). Arminianism teaches: God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. THE BIBLE TEACHES: (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth:) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated. (Rom. 9:11-13). Arminianism teaches: God wants everyone to be saved. THE BIBLE TEACHES: And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand...(Mark 4:11,12). Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:13). Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures (James 1:18). And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul (Acts 16:14). The kings heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will (Prov. 21:1). For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy (Rom. 9:15-16). Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved… In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will (Eph. 1:3-6, 9). ... and I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright. It may seem a harsh sentiment; but he who in his soul believes that man does of his own free will turn to God, cannot have been taught of God, for that is one of the first principles taught us when God begins with us, that we have neither will nor power, but that He gives both; that He is Alpha and Omega in the salvation of men. (Charles H. Spurgeon from the sermon Free Will A Slave (1855, spurgeon.org/sermons/0052.htm) referring to Luthers book The Bondage of the Will [ow.ly/BcH5P]). - FREE WILL vs. THE BIBLE by Dr. Reg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualNLs/freewill.htm _____ The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther and Other Reformers (Free MP3s, Books, Kindle, etc.) ow.ly/BcH5P The Papists hold that man, through his own free will, returns to God; and on this point is our greatest contest with them at this day. - John Calvin,Commentary on Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:19) A mans free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul. - Augustus Toplady on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o. There are also 1,480 Reformation resources (books, MP3s and videos) under the category Calvinism and Predestination on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o. Free will is corrupted natures deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds. - John Owen on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o. The word freewill (as also self-determining power [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture. 1 Cor. 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will. - Francis Turretin I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly. - Charles Spurgeon on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o. ow.ly/BcHiQ ARMINIANISM ANOTHER GOSPEL: JOHN CALVIN, CHARLES SPURGEON, JONATHAN EDWARDS, JOHN OWEN, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD AND OTHER CALVINISTS REFUTING THE HERESY OF ARMINIANISM. (FREE BOOK & FREE MP3s) ow.ly/BcHiQ Freedom of the Will, A Careful And Strict Inquiry Into The Prevailing Notions - Jonathan Edwards On Calvinism & Predestination by Jonathan Edwards (41 free MP3s from SWRB) sermonaudio/go/23180 _____ The Need for an Uncompromising and Vigilant Witness Against Arminianism Warnings from the pulpit and denunciation of the errors of Arminianism are not now heard as once they were. Even in pulpits where the truth is preached, it is to be feared that, in some cases, a faithful witness is not raised against Arminianism. The cause of this may be due in a measure to the fact that in defending the cause of truth new forms of error have to be exposed and assailed, with the result that the old enemy is left so far unmolested as if it were dead. Unfortunately this is not so; Arminianism is very much alive in the pulpit, in the theological and religious press, and in the modem evangelistic meeting . . . . . When we bear in mind the horror with which our forefathers regarded Arminianism, the modern attitude to it indicates how far the professing Church has drifted from the position of the theologians of those days. (The Reformed Faith by the Rev. D. Beaton, p. 18). Arminianism was the false gospel of John Wesley and his followers in the eighteenth century, and of D. L. Moody in the nineteenth. It is the stock-in-trade of well nigh all the popular evangelists of this century from Billy Graham downwards. The gospel halls of the Brethren, Open and Closed, are nurseries of Arminianism. The active agents of the Faith Mission and the Salvation Army, notwithstanding the moral and social results to the credit of the latter, spread the plague on every side. All the sects which have sprung up in these latter times, however divergent in their doctrines and practices -- Jehovahs Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists... Mormons, Christadelphians, Cooneyites, etc., etc., have all in common, the fatal lie of free-willism. It is Satans sovereign drug, which causes the soul to sleep in delusion, and the end of such delusion is death. Free will, says Spurgeon, has carried many souls to hell but never a soul to heaven. Arminianism is armed to the teeth in enmity to true and vital godliness. Where it flourishes its fruits are a superficial goody-goody form of godliness -- the lamp and the light of the foolish virgins which went out in death and in despair. The Declaratory Acts of 1879, 1892 and 1921 in Scotland, and in 1901 in the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand threw open the flood-gates to the deluge of Arminianism. Spiritual death and desolation followed. The fat land was turned into barrenness, and the Churches adopting these Declaratory Acts are now well on the road to Rome. The sovereign drug of Arminianism has flourished beyond the wildest dreams of priests and Jesuits. It is not by open and unabashed passing of nefarious Declaratory Acts that Satan as an angel of light now works. Subtle infiltration is his present policy and technique. What need there is for the denunciation and the horror the Rev. D. Beaton refers to, as the cloven-hoof of Arminianism is unmistakably seen far within the tents of the popular evangelical conventions, fellowships, and unions of our day! The Scripture Union, the Inter-Varsity Fellowship, the International Council of Christian Churches, the conventions of the Keswick fraternity etc., are all riddled with the cancer of Arminianism. - FROM: Arminianism: Another Gospel (Free MP3 and PDF), by William MacLean ow.ly/BcHiQ and sermonaudio/go/725 _____ What is the heresy of Rome, but the addition of something to the perfect merits of Jesus Christ ” the bringing in of the works of the flesh, to assist in our justification? And what is the heresy of Arminianism but the addition of something to the work of the Redeemer? Every heresy, if brought to the touchstone, will discover itself here. I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else... nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor. - Charles Spurgeon, A Defense of Calvinism (free MP3 sermon). sermonaudio/sermoninfo.asp?SID=13006104515 FREE WILL vs. THE BIBLE by Dr. Reg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualNLs/freewill.htm
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