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“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Its an equivocation on the word "free." The Arminians mean that you don't have to pay anything for it. You mean that the person can't even take it.
Really I don't think the correct accusation against them is that they deny salvation being free (they would accept that it is free) but rather that they deny that the person who's supposed to be receving the free gift is actually dead, and the gift is actually life.
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It's not an equivocation. It's an analogy that thr Bible doesn't use. If you aren't using Biblical analogies in salvation, you won't understand it. And it is not free. If man has a requirement in salvation, any requirement, then salvation is not free. It's an exchange for work.
They mean free in layperson's terms. For instance if I offer you a car and say you don't have to pay for it you can accept the car or not. That's "free" in the standard, cultural definition of the word. The problem is that this isn't the Biblical analogy. Salvation isn't a transaction, its Christ's accomplished redemption on the cross for sinners. Its dead men being brought back to life. Dead men who can't respond at all, can't even choose. In other words, you're right. But "free" needs to be defined for them first.
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Then I hope that you and Sola and hell's unicorn will talk amongst yourselves. I agree with what NC said, but I do understand that feeling of obligation to address the twisting scripture. Which I think is why people like pcosmar, William Tell and others reply to Sola.
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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But you probably still view me as a heathen for disagreeing with you on the New Covenant
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