Dr. Picirilli gives a basic overview of the teachings of Joseph Arminius and discusses the biblical explanation of the possibility of apostasy. This booklet presents the Reformed Arminian position of assurance and salvation in easy-to-understand terms that prove beneficial to both scholar and layperson. The reader will be able to distinguish the difference in views of security and assurance of one's salvation. This is an ideal book for ministers and church leaders to have in the office library. This quick read is ideas for anyone interested in doctrine and theology.
As I have said in the preface, Arminius himself and his first followers avoided a clear conclusion on the subject of perseverance. But they raised the question, and the natural implications of their non-predestinarian view of salvation, even at that early stage, tended to question whether Calvinism's assumption of necessary perseverance was truly biblical. Arminius' opinion on the subject can be captured in this relatively brief statement on the subject: My sentiments respecting the perseverance of the Saints are, and those persons who have been grafted into Christ by true faith, and have thus been made partakers of his life-giving Spirit, possess sufficient powers (or strength) to . . . gain the victory over those enemies yet not without the assistance of the grace of the same Holy Spirit. So that it is not possible for them, by any of the cunning craftiness or power of Satan, to be either seduced or dragged out of the hands of Christ.
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