[connectthedots]

I have to admit with our Arminian friends, unless you're into diagramming sentences this is a difficult read. I'm going to have to break it down.

If a guy can't write so his message can be clearly understood by someone of reasonable intelligence without having to carefully parse the words it isn't worth reading.

Thus, this Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.

I love these kinds of conclusions. Kind of reminds me of a college philosophy instructor who said "Whenever an argument concludes the the phrase 'So, obviously..., you can be assured of one thing; there is nothing obvious about the conclusion."

[HarleyD]

"If a guy can't write so his message can be clearly understood by someone of reasonable intelligence without having to carefully parse the words it isn't worth reading."

I wouldn't say just because you can't understand Shakespeare you shouldn't read it. This obviously is from a different era. Many of the early church fathers works are in very difficult prose but is worth figuring out. Heck, sometimes my pastor sounds like this. :O)