[xzins]

if you change the words,

I disagree. He was interpreting the confession using the bible.

The Dortists developed the practice of interpreting the bible using the confession.

See Arminius' words here: LINK

[Frumanchu]

I disagree. He was interpreting the confession using the bible. The Dortists developed the practice of interpreting the bible using the confession.

Not interpreting...rewriting them. To change the words as he proposed completely changed the clear meaning of the Confession's statement on predestination. Whether or not the Confession was true to Scripture on this point is in this context irrelevant since what is being argued is not whether the Confession is Scriptural on this matter, but rather whether or not Arminius was in agreement with the confession. He clearly was not.

And note also that it was the GOVERNMENT that kept him in his pulpit and his professorship until the day of his death...NOT the confessional Calvinists.

I'm finished rehashing this discussion for how. I trust that if Quix is truly interested and feels it a study worthy of the time, then it will be obvious that Arminius was NOT a confessional Calvinist.

[Quix]

thx.