AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

New Testament, supposedly God cannot set his __________________________
upon this person as distinct for that person. But God explicitly says in the
Scripture several times, “I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy.”
(Exodus 33:19)
Dr. Steven Mansfield: As much as we need to be doing theology and need to be
doing apologetics for the things we believe, we never need to lose the
perspective that God is God and He can do what He wants to do. And who are
we to question His ways and His sovereign choices?
Pastor Walter Bowie: I always ask a person, “Where do you stand to get a
standard by which you measure God?” He Himself is the standard. And He
does what and only what He pleases.
Dr. Steven Mansfield: The truth is that God is God and He can do whatever He
wants. His job description is to do whatever pleases Him. That is how He makes
decisions. That is the way He conducts himself: according to His own good
pleasure, as Scripture says. That is good news to the believer but it is bad news
to those who are rebelling against God.
7. Eric: Given the theological climate of the time, the Arminian party had no
choice but to deal with the doctrine of election. As we’ve seen, their
remonstrance insisted that the individual’s response to God’s offer of salvation
was what sparked their spiritual resurrection; their “born-again” experience. But
at the same time they acknowledged the Bible’s clear teaching that God chooses
who will be saved. And so they devised a way of supposedly reconciling the
obvious tension between these two concepts. According to the Arminian party’s
formulation, God looked down through the corridors of time and foresaw those
who would choose Him and then ratified their choice by electing them.
Therefore, election, to the Arminians was “______________________,” based
upon man’s proper reaction. Quoting again from the Articles of Faith of the
National Association of Free Will Baptist: “God determined from the beginning
to save all who should comply with the conditions of salvation. Hence by faith in
Christ men become His elect.” (Articles IX)
8. Eric: This was, according to the Synod of Dordt, pure _____________________.
In their official denunciation of the Remonstrance they wrote:
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