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NASB | John 6:65 And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 6:65 And He was saying, "This is the reason why I have told you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him [that is, unless he is enabled to do so] by the Father." |
Subject: Study the Word, Calvin, or Aminian??? |
Bible Note: Jesusman: You wrote: 'The Third issue concerning these two groups is focused around the points themselves. If you examine closely, the five points of Calvinism is exactly opposite of the Five points of Arminianism, almost to the extreme. This ties into what I said earlier about the term "heretic". I believe that the Five Points of Calvinism was not developed to give the church a concise outline of Biblical Doctrine. Rather, it was developed to combat Arminianism. To "show them up", so to speak.' You are right that this is no accident. The Canons of Dort (one of the "three forms of unity" along with the Beligic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism) were specifically drafted by the synod as a Calvinist response to Arminian teaching. That is not to say that the five points were INVENTED at this point, any more than the Council of Nicaea invented the doctrine of the Trinity in the fourth century. Dort served as a point-by-point refutation of what the synod considered to be biblical error, and from the Canons of Dort we see the five points in their codified form. --Joe! |