Bography Archive - Calvinism and Arminianism

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2025-09-02
Why did God decree Arminians and Provisionists?
2016-11-27
A Yiddish Calvinist’s view of “free” will
2015-12-27
Jesus, outstretched arms on the cross: “Hug me; back”
2015-11-05
Visions: why does God give them only to some?
2015-10-21
The Arminian view of free will: Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannotish please God.
2015-08-13
“I am determined to get well”: Yep, you are – to get well or not to.
2015-07-17
Arminianism: The submortuarian, relapsarian view of predestination/election
2015-06-06
Thoughts on Doctrine of Total Depravity and the Syrian War
2015-04-12
Predestination: Many Christians know what it means but can’t swallow it
2015-04-09
John Calvin and the execution of Servetus
2015-03-19
Free will in salvation: a hot limp sermon
2015-03-05
All is grace: Now that I’m born again, I can and want to believe and repent. What a logical logos I serve!
2015-02-24
Why do most Christians call grace (that saves) amazing? They can’t see that it is they who are
2015-01-27
On snobbish felines and the will to believe in Christ
Yes, Christ came to save the lost. But which ones?
2015-01-13
“God loves you. He loves you. He loves you.” Since when?
2014-12-25
Judge to Calvinist murderer: “We don’t hang robots”
2014-12-23
Wesley and Pelagius: Kissing cousins?
2014-12-22
The Arminian and Calvinist understanding of “Salvation is (totally) of the Lord.”
2014-12-18
Thanks for Being Rude…no, really, Thanks.
2014-11-29
Did God really say “Prevenient” Grace
2014-11-28
Free Willy: Amazing grace and the grammar of Bible interpretation. Inspired by James White and Michael Brown
2014-11-20
Love and Wrath of the Lamb: A God who would rather die than kill his enemies?
2014-08-29
The unbelieving spouse and the arbitrary god
2014-08-26
The miserable Christian
2014-08-23
Where Arminians and Arminius are at odds – Calvin
2014-08-12
Amazing grace that helped me help God save me: Appealing to the Arminian’s noggin
2014-08-04
The nature of regeneration: Does Nicodemus allow God to regenerate him?
2014-08-01
Tertullian and Augustine: Predestination – Are Christians made or born? Both.
2014-07-03
The Jewish heart: Why a Rabbi should not find it too hard to be a Calvinist
2014-06-22
The deadish ISH and darkish darkness of the unregenerate: The libertarian view
2014-06-09
John 6 and the Eucharist: The deception of perception
2014-04-17
The Calvinist Robot and the Arminian Zombie: Grammars of coming to faith.
2014-04-07
“Jerusalem Jerusalem” – John Piper’s tender (?) word to Pharisees in the parable of the prodigal son
2014-04-01
The sufficiency of the atonement: So what!
2014-03-26
What’s the fore in foreknowledge for? God will make a plan
2014-03-19
Salvation and God’s will in Thomas Aquinas: Does God appoint his own disappointment?
2014-03-14
God’s foreknowledge: Does God plan the end and only foreknow the means?
2014-03-12
O Jerusalem Jerusalem! Grammar is of the Lord
2014-03-10
Does God blind Arminians?
2014-02-24
You have won my heart, now I can trade my ashes in for beauty: How one does not come to faith in Christ
2014-02-14
Of being born again and a husband’s one track mind
2014-02-06
Why in the world do Calvinists always have that grin on their face?
2014-01-24
Inviting your dead enemy to surrender: The chicken and the egg of regeneration and faith
2014-01-10
Should I preach hell to my granny? No, says McCraney
2014-01-03
Who limits God: Can the Arminian, Roger Olson, and the Calvinist, Michael Horton, hole up together?
2013-12-12
Strickened and quickened. (My) Love wins: Arminianism in a nutshell
2013-11-21
Calvinism is STUPID, stupid
2013-10-15
Is salvation possible for all: Greg Koukl wants to have his Calvinism but not eat it
2013-08-23
A song Arminians love to sing (think)
2013-08-16
God wants to save me. That’s good news. Does he have your permission?
2013-08-04
God is knocking at the door of “woosoever’s” heart: John Flavel on Revelation 3:20
2013-07-24
If you improve your naturals, is God bound to give you spirituals? Fiddling with free will
2013-07-22
God cannot change you: A NewISH creation
2013-07-17
Free swill: Baa Ram Ewe: Apologies to Babe
2013-07-11
All I want is a shack somewhere – where I can find God: wouldn’t it be lovely
2013-07-10
You have engraved me on your hands: Arminian and Calvinist reasonings
2013-06-30
There’s no such being as an Arminian Armenian
2013-05-03
Born again, hell and other questions from a disbeliever
2013-03-26
Unconditional election and unconditional eclection
2013-03-25
God’s delusion
2013-03-07
The Calvinist Robot and the Arminian Zombie: Grammars of coming to faith.
2013-02-09
“Election is for everyone,” which may depend on free will but never on human choice (?).
2013-01-29
A Calvinist drools over the ORDO SALUTIS: Justification, and Salvation by works
2013-01-22
Augustine seeks and finds: One man’s gift (Geschenk) is another man’s poison (Gift)
2013-01-21
Freedom to choose salvation: Stop living according to the flesh; tap into your inner power and come to Christ
2013-01-20
Calvinism: Word, logic and heart – and faith, of course
Calvinists who know their oats: Salvation is indeed by works
2013-01-14
Will everyone who calls on the name of the Lord be saved? Of course not
2013-01-08
Providence and Ibn Ezra’s not so original take on Moses the Egyptian: Can God decide my destiny without me?
2013-01-07
Of course I don’t follow Calvin, I follow Calvinism; the nickname for biblical Christianity.
2012-12-30
Dear Arminian, why does God keep you confused or hardened?
2012-12-19
Michael Brown’s Unconditional election of Israel: surely what’s good for the Jewish goose is good for the Gentile gander.
2012-11-29
I know I am justified; now I must focus on the job of sanctification
2012-11-26
God’s corporate election of Israel and individual election (Jew and Gentile)
2012-10-24
Faith and Jerks: The Bible out of context is a con; that’s why James White is not going to hell
2012-10-15
God’s election. No, not of a Mormon president
2012-10-05
Conversation between a Jewish agnostic and Jewish Calvinist
2012-10-03
Arminians who confuse and refuse: free will in coming to Christ
Objections to Calvinism and Christian behaviour
2012-10-01
The Chimera of Neo-gnostic Calvinism: Advice to those opening a savings account
2012-09-29
God’s grace and the bugbear of an authoritarian God: Why do Christians need psychology to relate to God?
2012-09-25
Archibald Alexander and how we come to faith: Thank God that he never depends on human understanding to bring us to faith
2012-07-09
One thing Jewish Arminians and Jewish Calvinists have in common
2012-07-08
The Christian Trinity and the Unity-plurality of Cabala
2012-07-04
Art Katz’s Agony and Ecstasy of Paul: Contradiction and election in Romans 11
2012-06-29
The moment of “decision” – Did you accept Christ before or after you were regenerated (born again)?
2012-06-22
Amazing Free Will: irresistible
2012-06-07
Of mysticism, cooking and them goose bumps
2012-05-31
The plan of salvation: Is it worth the risk, my Son? What, risk! Ask Jacques Derrida, CS Lewis and Thomas Oord
2012-05-21
The Gospel of God and the Gospel of man
2012-05-14
The socks of salvation
2012-04-20
I’m nothing but a sinner saved by grace, nothing but forgiven, nothing but emasculated
2012-04-03
Philosophy in John Owen’s Calvinism
The pith of ”It’s not he who willeth.” Romans 9 and free will
2012-04-01
Ipad 3 explains salvation and a Calvinist sees the light
2012-03-31
On passivity, mood and free will in Christian regeneration: With a little help from Glen Miller and Little Richard.
2012-03-30
Passivity and Suffering in the Passion of Christ
2012-03-27
The Nature of Man: the Will and the Fall of Adam and his children
2012-03-22
Isaiah 46:9-10. That’s why you need a (respectful and reverential) kick in your Arminian pants
2012-03-15
Freedom of the will, regeneration and faith: D.C. Carson’s “It’s up to you.”
2012-03-05
Anthony Flew and CS Lewis come to God
2012-02-28
In the trade: The songs Arminians – and Calminians – love to sing
2012-02-12
You have won my heart, now I can trade my ashes in for beauty: How one does not come to faith in Christ
2011-11-10
“Your question is awaiting conflagration” (Wintery Knight)
2011-10-22
Salvation and the creaturely corridors of time
2011-10-20
John Owen on Arminianism and the idol of “free” will
2011-07-15
When Voluntary is not free? Faith and Will in salvation
2011-03-13
Analysis of the Modern Evangelical Mind and the Lost Art of Boxing
2011-03-07
Calvinist Arminians and Arminian Calvinists
2011-03-02
A Calvinist Jew’s gratitude to Gentle James White
2011-02-27
John Wesley, Budding Calvinist, Naughty Arminian
2011-02-19
God’s will and God’s swill in salvation: thoughts on the Arminian-Calvinist controversy
2011-02-04
Calvinists, Neo-gnostic Calvinists and Seeking Arminians
2011-01-31
Knowing God: Where the humanistic rubber meets the Sovereign road