“He underscored the belief, common to much of evangelicalism and to Roman Catholicism, that humans participate in their own salvation — i.e., “make a decision for Christ”....”
Hate to break it to this guy, but you don’t have to believe in Calvin to believe in Jesus! There is very little SCRIPTURAL support for Calvinism, and hundreds of verses holding us responsible for believing.
BTW - Augustine was a Calvinist a thousand years before Calvin...so perhaps Calvinism ought to be called Augustinianism.
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“He underscored the belief, common to much of evangelicalism and to Roman Catholicism, that humans participate in their own salvation — i.e., “make a decision for Christ”....”
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This looks like the Arminian position. Which is to be saved by faith through grace. This means you confess your faith in Jesus and God extends his grace—that is his unmerited favor— to you. The point here is that you provide the initiative that makes the transaction happen.
The Calvinist position is just the reverse— that you are saved by grace through faith. This means that even your confession of faith in Jesus is a work of God.
People can hold to either position and hold within orthodox christianity—just as they can hold to any one of a half dozen end times theologies and remain within Christian orthodoxy.
He was? Calvinism is nothing but a sect. Not a church