>>It is interesting, however, that you offer a “solution” to the disparity between those who hold to free will (and other Arminian perspectives) and those who cannot find such doctrines in the Scriptures.
You can’t see the problem? When I became a Methodist, and learned that a Methodist is Arminian, I studied that and discovered the rift between the Arminians and Calvinists.
So, what did I do first? I got books on Calvinism and read the scriptures that “prove” Calvinism is right before I started trying to prove Arminianism. Then, I read the scriptures that “proved” Arminianism.
If you cannot find proof of such doctrine in scripture, then you just aren’t looking for it.
If you cannot find proof of such doctrine in scripture, then you just aren’t looking for it."
Curious...what Scriptures "proved" that Arminianism was correct? Other than the "freewill" offering in the Old Covenant, which simply meant it was not going to be prescribed, and once when Paul told Philemon that he ought to take back Onesimus not by compulsion but by his own "free will", the words "free will" do not appear in the Scriptures. Yet, you say "free will" (actions/thoughts/beliefs of a man without any influence from an outside agency) are apparent in Scripture.