Nowhere in the video does it say "do not fellowship with Arminians" or "Arminians are going to hell." Nor does it say "You must be a Calvinist to be saved." One can be an intellectual theology expert, and yet not know Jesus Christ.
Christians might not agree on the degree to which GOD is in control of an individual's salvation, but we can agree on the means by which we're saved: "faith alone in Christ alone." "Repenting and believing in the Gospel."
The scholars in the video are making the case that the initial "conservative" emphasis on the role of man's will can lead to a slippery slope effect to more liberal doctrines and philosophies.
CP:
If I was perceived to have read into your post anything you did not intend, I ask your forgiveness. I was reacting to what I have experienced from all too many Calvinists in their words about Arminians in the past.
To some degree, I can agree that, once some are “freed” from a particular theological framework, from a certain set of affirmations, unless they are grounded in TRUTH alone, they tend to drift to another exptreme. I don’t believe that’s true just of those who left Calvinism and moved toward (and then far beyond) Arminianism, however. One sees the same thing within the context of Calvinism (consider the Presbyterian CHurch, USA for instance, or the “Unitarian” churches of New England in 1700’s and 1800’s New England — they started in Calvinist churches).
The same case could be made for early Baptists, for the Anabaptists of the radical reformation, and for the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement....
The point being, yes, there is room among brothers and sisters to hold to different views of soteriology within the framework of “salvation by grace alone through faith alone,” and yet affirm the cardinal doctrines of Christianity.
Blessings to you — and thanks,
Patriot Preacher