Result of Arminianism?

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Here is a quote from "The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination" by Loraine Boettner, What's everyone's thoughts on Boettner's thoughts on the result of Arminiamism.

History shows plainly that the tendency of Arminianism is to compromise and to drift gradually from an evangelical basis. Hence it is that to this day there has never been developed a logical and systematic body of Arminian theology. It has, in the Methodist Church for instance, a brief and informal creed in some twenty-five articles; but the contrast between that statement and the carefully wrought-out Westminster Confession is seen at a glance.

Loraine Boettner: Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

www.ccel.org

 

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Here is a quote from "The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination" by Loraine Boettner, What's everyone's thoughts on Boettner's thoughts on the result of Arminiamism.

History shows plainly that the tendency of Arminianism is to compromise and to drift gradually from an evangelical basis. Hence it is that to this day there has never been developed a logical and systematic body of Arminian theology. It has, in the Methodist Church for instance, a brief and informal creed in some twenty-five articles; but the contrast between that statement and the carefully wrought-out Westminster Confession is seen at a glance.

Loraine Boettner: Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

www.ccel.org

Very good.

I would add here that if one follows through to the conclusion about God in which the free will view arrives, this is what I see:

I see a Sovereign God who had a covenant of redemption with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, even before the foundation of the world. The plan was complete in all its details and the carrying out of it, of necessity, for God is who He is.
We see the curse and the announcement right after the fall of mankind, regarding the serpent and the seed of woman. "You will bruise His heel but He will crush your head."

From beginning to the end of the OT we see a portion of this redemption play out through Israel and read the prophecies of this coming Seed. The evil one tried at every bend in the road to destroy the Seed bearer.

In the NT we see the arrival of the Seed, our King and Redeemer. We see Him live a perfectly righteous life, suffer beyond what we are able to imagine, die, be raised to life, ascend back to the Father, His earthly mission of redemption finished.

In the free will view, we have this amazing, magnificent, God ordained and directed and fulfilled redemption of a sovereign God, step away from His Son, step away from the cross and the suffering on it, and leave the efficacy of Christ's obedience and suffering in the hands of a people who He has already declared to be at enmity with Him, who consider Him an enemy and are enemies of Him.

That defies every self revelation God has given of Himself in the scriptures.