Here's Article 1 of the Five Articles of Remonstrance:
Christ said: Apart from Me, you can do NOTHING
Arminian Preachers say: Apart from Christ, you can do SOMETHING to be in Him, you can believe.
IF what Arminian preachers say is correct, then Christ is wrong, an OBVIOUSLY wrong conclusion because Christ cannot be wrong.
Instead of born in sin, people are born in Christ. How?
On that same day Adam sinned, God implemented the plan of salvation He devised before the beginning of time, before the foundation of the world (2 Tim 1:8-10) and saved Adam through Christ (Acts 4:12), reinstating him to his pre-fall spiritual status, an act that cost the Father His only begotten Son - the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev 13:8). That gracious saving act was manifested and revealed in the life, death, resurrection and heavenly ministry of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. With Adam in Christ, all his descendants are born in Christ, and so are NOT apart from Him, and therefore can do SOMETHING. They can believe, repent, etc.
Any objection from the Arminians? Post your objections and I'll try my best to address them through Scriptures.
Highlighted in red above are phrases that INDIRECTLY point to the fact that people are born in sin and therefore born APART from Christ (above quote, alienate from Christ).Article I — That God, by an eternal, unchangeable purpose in Jesus Christ, his Son, before the foundation of the world, hath determined, out of the fallen, sinful race of men, to save in Christ, for Christ's sake, and through Christ, those who, through the grace of the Holy Ghost, shall believe on this his Son Jesus, and shall persevere in this faith and obedience of faith, through this grace, even to the end; and, on the other hand, to leave the incorrigible and unbelieving in sin and under wrath, and to condemn them as alienate from Christ, according to the word of the Gospel in John iii. 36: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him," and according to other passages of Scripture also.
Christ said: Apart from Me, you can do NOTHING
Arminian Preachers say: Apart from Christ, you can do SOMETHING to be in Him, you can believe.
IF what Arminian preachers say is correct, then Christ is wrong, an OBVIOUSLY wrong conclusion because Christ cannot be wrong.
Instead of born in sin, people are born in Christ. How?
On that same day Adam sinned, God implemented the plan of salvation He devised before the beginning of time, before the foundation of the world (2 Tim 1:8-10) and saved Adam through Christ (Acts 4:12), reinstating him to his pre-fall spiritual status, an act that cost the Father His only begotten Son - the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev 13:8). That gracious saving act was manifested and revealed in the life, death, resurrection and heavenly ministry of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. With Adam in Christ, all his descendants are born in Christ, and so are NOT apart from Him, and therefore can do SOMETHING. They can believe, repent, etc.
Any objection from the Arminians? Post your objections and I'll try my best to address them through Scriptures.