A Little 21-Points on the Complete Rejection of Hyper-Arminianism and Hyber-Calvinism

1.)  God is not the author of sin and evil.  Rather man and Satan are the authors of sin and evil.

2.)  Faith is not at all a work of man's will in part or whole.

3.)  There is a sense of free will in confessional Reformed theology.

4.)  The elect can be known by true assurance of salvation and conviction of election by God's Spirit.

5.)  We are called to evangelize.  Full Calvinists would appeal to the Freedom of God, but Arminians to the Freedom of Man in terms of cooperation with God.  The Hyper-Arminian will also not view grace and faith as gifts but work, but the Hyper-Calvinist will require perfect knowledge to have salvation.

6.)  Romans 1:19 refers to a civil awakening by God about His divine truth, but only a redemptive awakening happens after the Spirit enables someone to truly believe.

7.)   Obedience is essential to godly living, but how someone is justified is Christ alone.

8.)  Lawlessness is contrary to the Spirit, but lawfulness is for the honor of Jesus.

9.)  God chooses from every tribe, tongue, people and nation.

10.)  Those who die in infancy like St. David's child always go to heaven.

11.)  God commands repentance everywhere for everyone, but God truly gives it to His chosen but it is also proclaimed to Judas.

12.)  The two sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper are instruments of obedience that was are able to honor Jesus because of the Spirit work.

13.)  There is a sense where all are united in the invisible church, but to the visible church it is a mixed body although we seek to fill the local church with born again people.

14.)  All Christians are called to faithfully interpret the Bible, whether as individuals or a cooperate body.  Its the Bible over everything.

15.)  The Bible is the sole supreme infallible authority, but it tells us a subordinate authority in the civil magistrate in Romans chapter 13.  We are called to obey, but also seek reform under those laws that deny God-speaking Scripture.

16.)  There is a general benevolence where God sends rain on all, but the redemptive grace of God is for the elect alone.  It is also possible for God to use His display of a vessel of grace for the ungodly and unconverted where they have an civil warned heart that is not a born again heart.  It is also possible if God allows for the devil to further blind reprobates through an satanic blessing that is not really a blessing but a curse: namely, this could be used by a holy God to show them they are no good unto humility but it could also blind them unto damnation.

17.)  Every born again person is a Christian.  Arminians who are born again sin by the misview of God's freedom, but the Calvinist that think they have merely and solely head knowledge devoid of God's Spirit are not born again.  That head knowledge leads to more sorrow unless God will quicken it to saving knowledge.

18.)  Calvinists believe in a Freedom of God evangelism, but that means we share the Gospel of repentance and faith in Christ alone but the way men differs is God alone and He decides what to do with the message of evangelism.

19.)  High Calvinism is not always Hyper-Calvinism, but it depends on how they use the term.

20.)  No one has perfect knowledge but salvation depends on God alone.

21.)  Nothing ever adds to God, because God wants all the glory.  Arminians fail at this in the positive assertion of cooperation or total negativity on faith and grace as gifts, but hyper-Calvinists fail in the denial of Christ-honoring evangelism.