[Jael]

How exactly does this aid the Arminianist position?

I am a Bible Believer. I am not part of any branch of Protestantism. My church or beliefs never came from Mother Rome.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

How exactly does this aid the Arminianist position? ~~ I am a Bible Believer. I am not part of any branch of Protestantism. My church or beliefs never came from Mother Rome. 126 posted on 12/31/2002 3:33 PM PST by Jael

Sure they did. Arminianism was introduced into the Protestant Church by Jesuit Romanist design.

You must remember, prior to the Jesuit introduction of Arminianism into the Protestant Church (circa 1600), all of the Protestant Reformers (Martin Luther, John Calvin, George Morel, etc.) were Absolute Predestinarians.

Only after the Jesuit introduction of Arminianism into the Halls of Protestantism, did Protestants again begin to profess the unbiblical Ba'al-Religion that an unregenerate Man will "choose in favor" of God.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I am not part of any branch of Protestantism.

Outta curiosity... Is your meaning, by this statement, that you're a Baptist?

If so, then your heritage descends from one of two sources.

• The English Baptists (which is more probably the heritage from which you hail) are in fact a 17th-Century branch of Protestantism.
• The Continental Anabaptists and Independents (Waldenses and the like), OTOH, may legitimately claim to pre-date 16th-Century "Protestantism" by centuries. However, you must remember that the pre-protestant Continental Anabaptists were absolute predestinarians.

There is indeed a venerable Non-Romanist heritage -- of absolute predestinarians -- stretching back through the Centuries; just as there (was) a venerable heritage of absolute predestinarians even within Rome (at one time).

However, there is no such Non-Romanist heritage of Anti-Predestinarians whatsoever.