"...the saving acceptance of Christ is not forced, but voluntary. None are forced to come to Christ; it is a 'free choice'." And then in closing the preacher proclaims: "God has sent me to you to make you the offer. Christ has sent me to give you an invitation".
Who said it? Do you agree?
This man's doctrine could be summed up this way:
"So, then, the invitation is given to all, and no one who gets Christ gets him any other way than by a 'free choice'".
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In 1832, after reading the life of Jonathan Edwards, Robert Murray McCheyne was deeply humbled. He related this experience in his diary: "How feeble my spark of Christianity appears beside such a sun! But even his was a borrowed light, and the same source is still open to enlighten me."
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6 comments
Comment by David Dittmer on April 16, 2008 at 1:28 PM
This is just a guess, but I would say Charles Spurgeon, just because it sounds completely Arminian in Theology, but it is easy to be fooled by appearances.
Comment by David Dittmer on April 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Just to clarify: I don't think that Charles Spurgeon was Arminian. I just think that you are tricky in the quotes that you select.
Comment by Mike Leake on April 16, 2008 at 1:33 PM
LOL,
Charles Spurgeon is NOT an Arminian...how dare you David! You are right that I'm tricky...but it is not Spurgeon.
Comment by David Dittmer on April 21, 2008 at 7:26 PM
so..., nobody has figured it out, why don't you reveal who it was?
Comment by Mike Leake on April 21, 2008 at 8:05 PM
Ohhhh yeah, I forgot about this quote I left hanging....It is none other than Jonathan Edwards. A little surprising, eh?
Comment by David Dittmer on April 21, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Actually, not really. Something I am beginning to realize is that Calvinists and Arminians use a lot of the same language; however, while that is true, they differ quite severely in their underlying suppositions. Arminians: "how can I understand this in such a way to preserve Man's freedom?" Calvinists: "What is most glorifying to God?"