Charge: Arminianism inevitably leads to Liberalism
Calvinist Complaints: Arminianism inevitably leads to Liberalism
One Calvinist states: “Whenever the tenants of Arminianism takes root, the cancer of Humanism inevitably creeps into the Church and into the culture she’s called to disciple.” (Amazing Grace DVD)
When it is said, “Whenever the tenants of Arminianism takes root,” are the first 300 years of Church history being taken into consideration, where Calvinists acknowledge that it was a time period in which Calvinism was noticeably absent? Coincidentally, it was also a time period in which the body of Christ experienced its time of greatest expansion. In contrast, wherever the trail of Calvinism has led, the wake of Liberalism has followed. Simply look at Calvin’s Geneva today. Look at northeast America, where the Pilgrims landed. The northeast is arguably the most liberal part of America. Consider the person that Calvinists generally regard as the most intellectual Calvinist since the Reformation period, that is, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), former president of the “College of New Jersey,” which is now called, “Princeton University.” Is Arminianism to blame for all of Calvinism’s failures?
