I do not consider OSnAS as opposed to OSAS to be the litmus test of Arminian or Wesleyan theology. There are indeed OSAS Arminians and Wesleyans - as I said earlier, the Remonstrants after Arminius's death declared the matter "too close to call", essentially.
The litmus test, imo, is whether any person has the freedom of the will to choose to accept Christ -- as opposed to the Calvinistic idea that God decreed that this person here and that person there would be damned, no matter what, and that the human will was no factor whatsoever in who would be or could be "of the elect".
I used the phrase "freedom of the will" deliberately against Luther's phrase "the bondage of the will." Despite Luther's invaluable contributions, in error to say the will is not free.
It is not just BAPTISTS who are Calvinistic, it is also Presbyterians and Reformed. And not all Baptists are Calvinistic -- in fact, in the early days of Baptists -- there were Particular Baptists and General Baptists.
One of the CF Chaplains, drsteve, did his dissertation on the early Baptists -- and showed that the General Baptists rejected the Calvinistic ideas and YET IT WAS NOT THROUGH Arminianism that they abandoned the Calvinism -- but other sources. I read his doctoral dissertation and felt it was very fair to Arminius and Arminianism.
So since Calvinists are not going to honor the sub-forum's rules here, and are not going to go away - even though they know good and well they are not posting merely "in fellowship" but seem to indeed teach and debate against this specific faith-group (iow, exactly what the statement of purpose says should NOT happen)
- I would say then "go on, people - be as gracious and nice to them as you find yourself able."
Maybe we should start a "Wesleyan SAFE HOUSE
THREAD "
within in a sub-forum which should have been that already for the whole sub-forum
If ya haven't got a safe forum,
a safe house thread will do,
if ya haven't got a safe house thread,
than God bless you.