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How? That description is 100% pure Calvinism and a denial of Arminianism.
Regeneration is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit, to which the sinner responds in repentance and faith.
That's Calvinism, not Arminianism. Arminianism says that faith leads to/results in regeneration. This statement is saying that regeneration leads to/results in faith.
Arminianism says God extends Grace to all regenerating man enough to be able to choose to repent. Man then is given by God the ability to accept or reject him. Faith comes from God but God also gives us the ability to reject him.
So either God has two realities (remember that we agree that He knows all there is to know) or He is contingent on man. Which one is it?
BF&M"sinner responds in repentance "
Arminianism says God extends Grace to all regenerating man enough to be able to choose to repent. Man then is given by God the ability to accept or reject him. Faith comes from God but God also gives us the ability to reject him.
In calvinism the sinner cannot respond to regeneration it is predestined on him like a robot is programmed.
Not sure how you get Calvinism out of the BF&M.
God gives man the ability so it is still God's will. God dose not want a robot but a being that can glorify him by choice. There is no ability to deviate from that which is foreknown...therefore there is no "choice" on our end.
God also foreknows what those free choices will be as he is not bound by time. It is plain in the Bible. <--contradiction. Choices cannot be free if they are foreknown.
If you are predestined before forknowlege as Calvinist say then all actions are God's will and sin as well as good cannot exist. <--Contradiction, sin can exist, for God created Satan for a reason.
So if God grants faith, then it is God that enables a man to repent (or not), not the man. Not granting faith will 100% result in man rejecting God...and there lies the entire premise of what we're saying...it's not something man chooses, God does the choosing. To suggest otherwise is completely false logic and reasoning.
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God gives man the ability so it is still God's will.
So if it is God's will that someone accepts Him and if it is God's will that someone does not accept Him, then how is that different from the biblical teaching of predestination?
God dose not want a robot but a being that can glorify him by choice.
This contradicts your previous sentence.
God also foreknows what those free choices will be as he is not bound by time. It is plain in the Bible.
God is not bound by time but He works IN time. God knows all there is to know including all free choices, otherwise, God would not be all knowing.
If you are predestined before forknowlege as Calvinist say then all actions are God's will and sin as well as good cannot exist.
Correction. The bible specifically teaches predestination. This is not a Calvinist concoction.
Forknowledge dose not make a choice restricted that is what Open theist think.
Forknowledge is just future knowledge of free actions. It has no effect on the actions themselves.
That is only the Particular Baptist confession.
You still have the Six principle Baptists,General Baptists,Free Will Baptists,Missionary Baptists and other Baptist churhes throughout history that never held to that.
You can only say she is not a good "Particular Baptist"(Calvinist Baptist) and I doubt she would want to be one
BF&M"sinner responds in repentance "
Arminianism says God extends Grace to all regenerating man enough to be able to choose to repent. Man then is given by God the ability to accept or reject him. Faith comes from God but God also gives us the ability to reject him.
In calvinism the sinner cannot respond to regeneration it is predestined on him like a robot is programmed.
Not sure how you get Calvinism out of the BF&M.
....Baptists are historically Calvinistic.
... It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. ...
... Arminianism says God extends Grace to all regenerating man enough to be able to choose to repent. ....
The way I see it, if you're an Arminian/Wesleyan Baptist, you're really just a Methodist. Baptists are historically Calvinistic.
Arminian Baptists have just as long a history as Reformed Baptists.The earliest General Baptist Church was thought to be founded about 1608 or 1609. Its chief founder was John Smyth (1570-1612) and it was located in Holland.
Whats the meaning of Baptist anyway? Why the naming after John the Baptist?....Arminian Baptists have just as long a history as Reformed Baptists....
Forknowledge dose not make a choice restricted that is what Open theist think.
Forknowledge is just future knowledge of free actions. It has no effect on the actions themselves.
BF&M"sinner responds in repentance "
Arminianism says God extends Grace to all regenerating man enough to be able to choose to repent. Man then is given by God the ability to accept or reject him. Faith comes from God but God also gives us the ability to reject him.
In calvinism the sinner cannot respond to regeneration it is predestined on him like a robot is programmed.
Not sure how you get Calvinism out of the BF&M.
You're confusing regeneration with prevenient grace.
No it is part of it.
Do you believe that all man was tainted by the actions of one man?
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