John UK wrote:
Are you calling me a Calvinist?
Good grief what a terrible accusation to make of John. Don't you know that he is a professional hyper-Wesleyan of long standing?
He has been teaching the Roman Catholic style works based religion for ages.
His methodology is to take a verse and reconstruct it to demote the operation of the Spirit and promote the ability of the sinner.
For example the indwelling of the Spirit is not allowed in John's theory until the sinner has acted in accordance with acceptable parameters. Thus under his own volition the sinner without the Spirit, overcomes enmity with God and a lack of spiritual discernment, even dead in sins, and works a faculty of private faith and repentance.
Jacob Arminius is obviously a good buddy of John.