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POINT #1: I came to realize that the "foresight faith view" (classical Wesleyan Arminianism) was not the only scholarly alternative to the Calvinistic interpretation.
 
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POINT #1: I came to realize that the "foresight faith view" (classical Wesleyan Arminianism) was not the only scholarly alternative to the Calvinistic interpretation.


POINT #1: I came to realize that the "foresight faith view" (classical Wesleyan Arminianism) was not the only scholarly alternative to the Calvinistic interpretation.  
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I had so saturated myself with Calvinistic preachers and authors that the only thing I knew of the opposing views was what they told me. Thus, I had been led to believe the only real alternative to Calvinism was this strange concept of God “looking through the corridors of time to elect those He foresees would choose Him.” Notable Calvinistic teachers almost always paint all non-Calvinistic scholars as holding to this perspective. Once I realized I had been misled on this point, I was more open to consider other interpretations objectively.

I found a much more robust and theologically sound systematic in what is called "The Corporate View of Election,"[1] which so happened to be the most popular view among the biblical scholars of my own denomination (Southern Baptists). Much more can be said about this view that I will not take the liberty to expound upon in this article. However, I must warn readers that the all too common phrase, “nations are made up of individuals too,” does not even begin to rebut the claims of this perspective. Individuals are just as much involved in the Corporate perspective as they are the Calvinistic perspective (maybe even more so). Anyone who believes the Corporate view is easily dismissed with that simple one-liner has not yet come to understand it rightly. In my experience, very few Calvinists give this view the attention it deserves because it requires a shift in perspective that, if recognized, would undermine their entire premise.

Do you understand “The Corporate View of Election”…I mean really understand it? Could you defend it in a debate if you had to? Could you explain it objectively to a classroom of students? Are you willing to study it and evaluate its claims?

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -Aristotle

http://sbctoday.com/the-five-points-that-lead-me-out-of-calvinism-part-one/

 

 
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