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Dr. Donal Haynes, director la United Methodist Studies at Hood Theological Seminary explică într-un articol în care deplânge faptul că neo-calviniştii câştigă teren că totuşi, el dă dreptate calviniştilor într-o privinţă: I respect the concern of Reformed Theology, that we Arminians bought into Enlightenment philosophy and shifted faith from God’s grace over to human free will. I regret our long journey into a naïve and blasé concept of evil. We “sowed the wind and have reaped the whirlwind.” Adică, respect punctul de vedere al Teologiei Reformate că noi, Arminienii am adoptat filozofia Iluminismului şi am mutat credinţa de la harul lui Dumnezeu la libertatea voinţei umane. Regret îndelungata noastră călătorie într-un concept naiv şi blazat despre rău. Noi am „semănat vânt şi am cules furtună”.
Poate că nu ar fi rău ca arminianiştii să citească ce zice The London Baptist Confession de la 1869 cu privire la voinţa liberă (vezi mai ales punctul 4):
9. Free Will
1. God has indued the will of man, by nature, with liberty and the power to choose and to act upon his choice. This free will is neither forced, nor destined by any necessity of nature to do good or evil.
2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good and well-pleasing to God, but he was unstable, so that he might fall from this condition.
3. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has completely lost all ability of will to perform any of the spiritual good which accompanies salvation. As a natural man, he is altogether averse to spiritual good, and dead in sin. He is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself for conversion.
4. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into a state of grace, He frees him from his natural bondage to sin, and by grace alone He enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good. But because of his remaining corruptions he does not only (or perfectly) will that which is good, but also wills that which is evil.
5. The will of man will only be made perfectly and immutably free to will good alone in the state of glory.
Deci, probabil că în libertatea voinţei arminianului, el nu voieşte în mod perfect numai ceea ce este bine, ci şi ceea ce este rău. Adică, mai mult ceea ce este rău şi destructiv, cum ar fi cazul de mai sus. Sau, altfel spus, bazarea pe libertăţile noastre mai mult decât pe voia şi harul lui Dumnezeu nu duce niciodată la bine!
