What the heck does bringing up Laud have to do with events going on today?
***What the heck does bringing up Laud have to do with events going on today?***
From the pen of the Jesuit himself we know that Arminianism was sown into the Reformation specifically for the purpose of causing people to leave the Reformed doctrines and head back to Rome, whose foundation is Arminianism.
Just exactly as this verse proclaims:
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
So, yes, if the verse applies, it applies to Arminians and not the other way around. When people return back to their true Protestant Reformed roots, they are coming home. Either we Reformers are right and you are out of touch with the truth or Rome is right and your spiritual progenitors await. In effect, Arminianism is an illegitimate child.
Christian.