Both Calvinists and Armenians use the scripture to prove their positions and have good points. Personally, I think they are both true, it is our small minds that say it is one or the other. Maybe that’s the easy way out.
The Bible teaches both.
It is the blind who refuse to see there is more than just one side of the ages old predestination/ free will argument.
Proverbs 3:5-9
Only Calvinists' scriptures prove their positions. Armenians distort scriptures to prove their position, which is not Biblical. I have many Calvin and Calvinist books with solid scripture proof for TULIP; and their writing destroy's the Armenians' distortion of scriptures.
I’m an Arminian, but I actually believe some truth is beyond our understanding, which is why God gave us scripture and not a systematic theology text.
Both Calvinists and Armenians use the scripture to prove their positions and have good points.
Arminians (Armenians are citizens of the Armenia), do not have Scripture to back their claims, those claims are gratuitously asserted, poorly supported and their opposition to the Doctrines of Grace are greatly demagogued.
Personally, I think they are both true
That might be a fashionable sentiment scoring Diversity and Tolerance points with your friends, but it is not possible for mutually exclusive ideas to co-exist in the same place and context. Its kind of like straddling the fence on the Crevo arguments by claiming to be be an "Evolutionary Creationist". You can't bridge antithetical ideas without appearing clueless and devoid of sense to everyone.
it is our small minds that say it is one or the other. Maybe thats the easy way out
And insulting two thousand years of devout theologians and the true Saints of God by claiming that they all have "small minds" while you stand above us all because you have a "big mind" for allegedly "thinking both are true".
I submit that the Bible is a closed book to you and you understand neither monergistic or synergistic descriptions of soteriology.
Yes they are both true. That is one of the beautiful
things about Scripture, that we can hear and see with our heart which leads to understanding through the Holy Spirit.