5. 칼빈주의와 알미니안주의 오대교리 비교(Comparison of the Five Points)

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Title : Comparison of the Five Points of Calvinism and the Five Points of Arminianism

Ⅰ. The Five Points of Arminianism

1. Free Will or Human Ability

Although human nature has been severely affected by the fall, man's spiritual condition is not completely helpless. Man has the power to cooperate with the Spirit of God to be regenerated or to reject God's grace to perdition.

2. Conditional Election

God foresaw and chose those who would choose Christ of their own free will. After all, the ultimate cause of salvation is not God's choice of the sinner, but the sinner's choice of Christ.

3. Universal Redemption or General Atonement

Christ's redemption is effective only on condition that man chooses to accept it.

4. The Holy Spirit Can Be Effectively Resisted

Human free will limits the Holy Spirit in the application of Christ's redemptive work.

Until the sinner responds he cannot be given life by the Holy Spirit.

Thus, God's grace can be rejected.

5. Falling From Grace

Those who believe and are truly saved may lose their salvation if they fail to keep the faith and other things.

II. The Five points of Calvinism

1. Total Depravity

Man can do nothing concerning salvation because the fall has made him utterly incapable of believing the gospel for salvation. Salvation is possible only through grace by which the Holy Spirit regenerates the elect, and is entirely a gift of God.

2. Unconditional Election

God's election is not based on human merit or God's foreknowledge of those who will be saved, but is based solely on his sovereign will.

Therefore, the ultimate cause of salvation is not the sinner's choice of Christ, but only God's choice of the sinner.

3. Limited Atonement

Christ's death was a substitutionary endurance as punishment for certain particular sinners.

Christ died only for His chosen people.

4. Irresistible Grace

The Holy Spirit is never limited by the will of man in applying salvation, and never cooperates with man in saving man.

5. Perseverance of the Saints

All who have been chosen by God, redeemed by Christ, and endowed with faith by the Holy Spirit will keep their faith by the power of Almighty God, and as a result will receive eternal salvation.