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To: HarleyD

Arminians who switched to the Dortist view is a better way of putting it, however, I get your point.

I'm trying to think of one, because there probably is....just on the basis of probability if nothing else.

I don't know Whitefield's early history, so I don't know what route he traveled in getting to his dortism....but he's a possibility.

It's a possibility with just about any of the Anglicans since they had both ends of the calvinist spectrum operating within their church.


328 posted on 01/23/2005 12:22:10 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins
Arminians who switched to the Dortist view is a better way of putting it, however, I get your point.

Any Arminian who "switched to the Dortist view" is by definition no longer an Arminian. Arminianism and Calvinism are not two flavors of the same pie. Arminians abandoned Calvin for a partial return to Rome. Your mischaracterization of yourself and other Arminians fools no one who knows the doctrines, but it needs to be pointed out for those who might otherwise be fooled.

Arminians are NOT Calvinists, in any way, shape or form. They are not "Calvinists of the Arminian persuasion", or Reformed. The Synod of Dort made a sharp distinction between The Remonstrants and Calvinists. Arminianism grew out of the Remonstrance. They departed Calvinism, and in so doing can no longer rightfully claim or hold the name Calvinist. For you to do so is deceptive.

329 posted on 01/23/2005 12:40:16 PM PST by nobdysfool (Faith in Christ is the evidence of God's choosing, not the cause of it.)
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To: xzins; RnMomof7; HarleyD; Frumanchu; nobdysfool; Gamecock
dortism

Isn't it difficult enough to try and sort through each others' ideas and opinions and faith without making up words and inserting this dissembling into the mix? It reveals a weak position to do so.

330 posted on 01/23/2005 12:47:58 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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