"For whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might
be the firstborn among many brethren" (Rom 8.29). Very clearly, we see
the order of things: predestination is by
foreknowledge. God first foreknows the choice we would make in His image,
then He predestinates it (approves or allows it). He
does not pre-make us to choose. Thank God for His grace of righteousness and
purity in His way that gives us peace!
(3) not totally deprave (though fallen from grace
producing the flesh) because (1)
supersedes any falling;
(4) And if man was totally deprave,
the only way he could come to Christ is if he was originally preprogrammed that
way;
(5) Preprogramming robots (a form of zombism to
induce passivity in its adherents which they like), of course doesn't,
represent reality or glorify God;
(6) And God values intrinsic value, not
instrumental value in man made in His image: We are all made in God's image forever. His image can
never be destroyed by a calvinist's total depravity;
(7) So God is not using us as a
means to an end but we are the
end in Him
in His image who He wants to walk with who choose the cross of Christ;
(8) We may, therefore, draw some conclusions - Come to Christ to (1)
receive the blessing
of eternal life according to John 6.47 by God's grace
of (1), (2), (6), (7);
(9) Consequently: Do not believe you are saved by
puffing yourself up thinking God pre-made you for salvation, for you would then not be saved
if this was the premise and condition of your new birth, since God does not save that way and
would never never give glory to God.
(10) Since calvinism does not represent God's holiness (His nature) and righteousness (His way of doing things),
normally those who are calvinists would be unregenerated, though there is always
exceptions to the rule in the case of one truly saved but is deceived or
possessed, needing deliverance.
Introduction
Acts 2:21 'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO
CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.'
Acts 16:31 They said, "[Mark 16:16] Believe in the
Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and [Acts 11:14; 16:15]
your household."
Romans 10:9 That [Matt 10:32; Luke 12:8; Rom 14:9; 1
Cor 12:3; Phil 2:11] if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord,
and [Acts 16:31; Rom 4:24] believe in your heart
that [Acts 2:24] God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
Each of these verses say, first believe, not that
you are saved first or that you are giving faith first, while others not. The
gift of being made in God's image to have a right to choose the cross and rely
on God's drawing is a choice we are all afforded even though all men are fallen
in being born into sin. We must reasonably conclude, therefore, if God is asking
us to do something, even imploring us, it STANDS TO REASON that though God can
foresee our choice, it does not mean He premakes us to choose His life by saving
us first so then we can believe. God would never regenerate us before the choice
to believe from the grace in His image. In this image we are in we may come to
the cross as the Holy Spirit does all He can do righteously to draw us. The
flesh would never make that choice because it loves self too much! And I am most
grateful to God that He does not save us the calvinistic way. We are not totally
deprave which would require we be preprogrammed robots, to be saved first before
we can believe. And God would not make these other robots He did not save or
give faith or regenerate which would guarantee no free-choice in being premade
for Hell. Praise God is not such an impotent god. God says we shall know them by
their fruit. Is your fruit the fruit of a calvinist or an osas arminian? There
is not another choice. If you are saved, osas arminian is quite easy to accept.
If you are not saved, but a tare in the outward appearance of the kingdom, and
involved in calvinism, the probability of you actually being saved goes down
dramatically.
Details
OSAS
Arminian Spoken Plainly
It can be said this way - Our will can be viewed from two perspectives, as
God centers upon our will, and longs to see us make the choice for Him so He can
walk with those who are saved. From the perspective of our flesh, the will is
seen as utterly incapable of coming to Christ, and it will not even choose
Christ, for we can not choose Christ from our fallen nature.
From the other perspective, though, we are made in God's
image with a free-will like His to be under God or under Satan; so that, it is
through being made in God's image, one can come to the cross, which then God
gives His uncreated life to the believer by grace. Not all though, accept God's
salvation, effectively resisting His grace.
We are all, by grace, made in
the image of God, but only some, through that grace (not the will of the flesh),
come to the cross as helpless sinners to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior. God,
then, savingly graces the believer with His life. Mentally, we do not need to
believe, pridefully, we were pre-made for salvation, as taught by calvinists
(most of which are the tares), which is a false salvation, since predestination
is by foreknowing the choice we would make, not by pre-making our choice. Out of
His glory, God longs to see us make the choice for Him.
We were made in the image of
God by grace, and through that grace in His image we may accept the cross to
receive God's promise and gift of eternal life. We are not pre-made to choose to
be saved, nor is anyone pre-designed to go to hell.
Ro 8:28 And we know that all
things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose.
Ro 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren.
Ro 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom
he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
glorified.
Note the power of truth in
these verses. He "did foreknow", then he also "did predestinate", and moreover,
these are the ones "he also called". Three steps are involved here. First he
foreknew, and what He foreknew he predestinated, which he then called. Because
God foreknew my choice he thus called me, by first predestinating. Because I
made the right choice afforded to all men made in God's image (though not all
accept), I was righteously called by God and thus was born again. God did not
call me before I chose, but called me after I chose. Because I came to the cross
authentically in His image, I was saved then. He did not premake me for
salvation. That is evil. In other words the ordering is not called,
predestinate, foreknew; nor is it predestinate, called, foreknew. It is not
called, foreknew, predestinate or foreknew, called, predestinate. It is not even
predestinate, foreknew, called. The ordering is foreknew, predestinate,
called.
How precise and exacting God's word!
Calvinism
Problems
God did not pre-program you, pre-select,
pre-make you or pre-determine you to salvation,
or stack you in His favor, while pre-meditating, pre-making and pre-ordaining others with a bad
hand to hell. That would be unrighteousness and demented of Calvinism if He did that.
Grace of free-will bestowed on us before the foundations of the world is not
so depraved it can not believe, receive and accept God's redemptive design for
initial salvation to allow God to give the believer thereafter increased
faith,
despite the fall from grace.
Therefore, Total Depravity is false since we can believe according to John 6.47,
and God promises to give us then, eternal life. If TD was true, then the only
way we could accept Christ is if God pre-programmed us to be zombies to believe
Him. Such a God would be an evil god, not my God.
The chicken of salvation did not come before the egg of faith and the egg of
faith did not come before the fertilization of the grace of free-will made in
God's image. This is proper cause and effect. The grace of God was already set in motion at creation
when He created us in His image for us to
believe or not to believe, leaving it up to each soul to employ his volition
which supersedes whether we fell or not, towards accepting God's promise of the
gracing us with eternal life if we fulfill one simple condition, that is, to
believe in Him according to John 6.47.
Volition in His image happened there and then at the beginning
when God breathed His Spirit into the body from dust, to create a soul life and
a spirit life in the man made in His image, and so
God leaves it up to us, never touching, or altering our volition to choose.
God is a respecter of intrinsic
value, not instrumental value. We are not a means to an end, but an end in
Him. He will not make us zombies or coerce us to believe Him. He values our
intrinsic value, our free-choice so much that He will never annihilate us and so
He never pre-made for heaven or hell, but it was left up to each of us.
Therefore, total depravity did not come before creation, nor after creation,
not before the fall, nor after the fall, and does not even exist now since total
depravity can only exist in hell, but no one has been cast into hell yet. This
speaks volumes of the condition of the dead spirit in a Calvinist who embraces
zombiism preeminently and being not a respecter of free-will as God is. A
Calvinist, therefore, does not represent reality because they do not have
reality.
Calvinism is wrong because the grace
of free-will came before the fall, and in that grace, free-will can accept the redemptive design, the gospel, the good news.
After initial salvation, God's grace may increase in our lives and increase our
faith. After initial salvation He will even work independently to increase our
faith since we all need to be prepared for the new city.. But before initial
salvation He will not infringe Himself to the point of coercion for that would
be unholy, but Calvinist accept complete coercion saying God already decided
irrespective of man's free will. After initial salvation, God can work with
authority in the believer, whereas before initial salvation He was limited
because the man had not yet accepted Christ. There are things God can do after
initial salvation with the believer that he can not do before He gives the
believer eternal life at initial salvation.
This was so powerful, I have posted it on the
Misreading Nee site for it hits
the heart of the matter to convicts the Leeist Calvinist and all Calvinists. It should
be pointed out throughout Watchman Nee's writings that he was also an OSAS
Arminian.
Compare the 5 points here
(below).
It is really quite simple is it not? Not so simple for one who is under
Calvinism. Believe me, it is a likely sign of unsalvation that a person's heart could
believe such a thing as Calvinism. Most Leeists as I understand it, do believe these
things, and even after they deny them this 8 point key will be able to show and
unlock that even though they deny it any of its parts, they really do believe in
their heart of hearts these sins which God will not be able to save.
OSAS Arminian
Calvinism
Free-Will or Human Ability
Free Choice
Although human nature was seriously affected by
the fall, man has not been left in a state of total spiritual
helplessness. God graciously enables every sinner to repent and
believe, but He does not interfere with man's freedom. Each sinner
posses a free will, and his eternal destiny depends on how he uses
it. Man's freedom consists of his ability to choose good over evil
in spiritual matters; his will is not enslaved to his sinful nature.
The sinner has the power to either cooperate with God's Spirit and
be regenerated or resist God's grace and perish. The lost sinner
needs the Spirit's assistance, but he does not have to be
regenerated by the Spirit before he can believe, for faith is man's
act and precedes the new birth. Faith is the sinner's gift to God;
it is man's contribution to salvation.
Note the key word here,
"graciously". That is by grace we are given the choice to believe,
to have free-choice. The grace came first in giving us the right to
choose so that it is by the Holy Spirit giving us that right. You
could call this first faith (God's faith in in His image in us) as a
first right. Then in order to receive eternal life, we must take
that first right and believe with it as given to us by God's grace
to do, and which He longs to see us make a choice for Him, for we
who have chosen are the ones He wants to be with. After man so
chooses, THEN God gives additional grace, the grace and gift of
eternal life and indwelling Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit first moved
the man to believe by first giving the man the choice and as the
Holy Spirit leads, the man gives into the Spirit to be drawn and
effectively called to be saved
because he makes the right choice made in His image.
Conclusion: God has given
man a free-will and ability made in His image.
Total Inability or Total Depravity
Because of the fall, man is unable of himself to
savingly believe the gospel. The sinner is dead, blind, and deaf to
the things of God; his heart is deceitful and desperately corrupt.
His will is not free, it is in bondage to his evil nature,
therefore, he will not - indeed he cannot - choose good over evil in
the spiritual realm. Consequently, it takes much more than the
Spirit's assistance to bring a sinner to Christ - it takes
regeneration by which the Spirit makes the sinner alive and gives
him a new nature. Faith is not something man contributes to
salvation but is itself a part of God's gift of salvation - it is
God's gift to the sinner, not the sinner's gift to God.
OSAS arminians do not
believe that man savingly believes as if to say man is the one doing
the saving. Rather, we believe that the man is to implement the
image of God in him given by God so that no matter what happens, a
choice can be made for God from the image of God in man; which can
never be corrupted in spite of man's sin nature. That is why Gen.
1.26 is so important. Therefore, there must be the distinction
between the self-will corrupted by sin nature and the will made in
the image of God which God affords the man to choose with despite
the man being in dire straights. This solves the problem posed by
calvinists when they say "he will not choose" God. We who are saved do choose, and God does save us for so
choosing. That is spiritual reality, and we do not choose from
ourselves or our self-will but by the will made in the image of God
which is never corruptible. Thus, regeneration - nor election by
premaking - is not needed prior
to God needing the man to make a choice for Him, but regeneration
comes after the choice. That is proper cause and effect of God's
ordering, lovingly. This is the clear thought of God's mind that I
adore. Once God graces the man with eternal life, because the man
chooses (having been given the right to choose by grace), then God
gives the believer a new nature and much more than the right before
to choose God, but also now increased faith to add to the first faith by
God to man (of a free will made in His image) in a right to choose.
The faith that man is given by the Holy Spirit comes from 1) made in
His image to choose (God's first faith act instilled in man), and 2)
increased faith after saving us untowards overcoming in
Christ. Both faiths actually come from God, once creating us in His
image to choose, His gift to us of His image in faith, and then again
the gift of eternal life once we choose, a means to ever increasing
faith from God. Both were his. What makes calvinism deadly wrong in
this regard is the thought of zombiism that states that in order for man to
receive eternal life their god premade the man for
salvation so that the man could have faith, not taking into the
account that man is made in the image of God, and that God's image
is never damaged. Thank God that God does not premake men for hell
which would be needed for those not
pre-regenerated for heaven.
Conclusion: man is not
totally unable and not totally deprave otherwise that would kill
God's image, and that is impossible.
Conditional Election
God's choice of certain individuals unto
salvation before the foundation of the world was based upon His
foreseeing that they would respond to His call. He selected only
those whom He knew would of themselves freely believe the gospel.
Election therefore was determined by or conditioned upon what man
would do. The faith which God foresaw and upon which He based His
choice was not given to the sinner by God (it was not created by the
regenerating power of the Holy Spirit) but resulted solely from
man's will. It was left entirely up to man as to who would believe
and therefore as to who would be elected unto salvation. God chose
those whom He knew would, of their own free will, choose Christ.
Thus the sinner's choice of Christ, not God's choice of the sinner,
is the ultimate cause of salvation.
The faith which God foresaw
upon which He based His choice WAS given to the sinner by God by
giving the sinner the choice to choose. That is what is meant by
first faith right to choose in His image which God longs for to see
the man make the choice in His image. It was not regeneration, but
the first right of choice, a generation. Regeneration means after
generating, then regenerating. Man was first generated in God's
image, then regenerated into a new life if the believer chooses,
graced by the Holy Spirit. This choice man makes is his will made in
the image of God employed as God desires. There is no denying that.
The ultimate cause of salvation is still God since God made man and
gave the man the right to choose. If God did not do this then the
ultimate cause is man, not God. Calvinists accuse, but mistakenly
place regeneration before generation, and that is a zombiism. God
does not premake men for salvation nor hell. Let us observe proper
cause and effect in God's ordering.
Conclusion: God works
according to conditional election, which more simply stated is
really just "election" since God already knows who will choose by
His foreknowing our free-choice (Rom. 8.29).
Unconditional Election
God's choice of certain individuals unto
salvation before the foundation of the world rested solely in His
own sovereign will. His choice of particular sinners was not based
on any foreseen response of obedience on their part, such as faith,
repentance, etc. On the contrary, God gives faith and repentance to
each individual whom He selected. These acts are the result, not the
cause of God's choice. Election therefore was not determined by or
conditioned upon any virtuous quality or act foreseen in man. Those
whom God sovereignly elected He brings through the power of the
Spirit to a willing acceptance of Christ. Thus God's choice of the
sinner, not the sinner's choice of Christ, is the ultimate cause of
salvation.
His choice does rest solely
on His sovereign will just as osas arminians believe for man does
not save himself. His choice of a particular sinner is based on
foreknowing and foreseeing for this is an Almighty God that is able
to do this. We should not believe in a lesser god that says
otherwise or does not have this ability. God gives faith and
repentance by giving each person the right from first faith made in
His image to repent to allow for God's life to come into the newly
born believer. These acts are the result of God's choice to having
already created all men made in His image, and salvation that cane
be given upon the choice to choose of those who choose Him.
Election, therefore was determined, not by preselectionism arianism
or predesigning the man to choose, but righteously allowing any man
to choose Him so that He could give His life to any man. It would be
very wrong to say that God does not save based on foreknowledge for
the Scriptures use that exact word "foreknowledge" to explain
predestination, which calvinists always overlook. The ultimate cause
of salvation is always God from first giving man the choice, then
leading the man to choose, and then actually saving the man after
the man chooses in His image. The part that God adores is seeing the
man made in His image actually choosing so that then He saves.
Conclusion: Election is
not unconditional, but requires the man to choose in God's image
that the man is made in. These are the ones God will be with.
Universal Redemption or General
Atonement
Unlimited Atonement
Christ's redeeming work made it possible for
everyone to be saved but did not actually secure the salvation of
anyone. Although Christ died for all men and for every man, only
those who believe on Him are saved. His death enabled God to pardon
sinners on the condition that they believe, but it did not actually
put away anyone's sins. Christ's redemption becomes effective only
if man chooses to accept it.
OSAS arminians do believe
that His death does put away anyone's sins who believe. Satan is a
false accuser and so he accuses through the calvinists saying that
osas arminianism do not believe this. Christ's redemption is can not
save the man who calls Jesus a liar despite what a calvinist will
teach.
Conclusion: Universal
Redemption, an Unlimited Atonement, is God's working and will.
Particular Redemption or
Limited Atonement
Christ's redeeming work was intended to save the
elect only and actually secured salvation for them. His death was
substitutionary endurance of the penalty of sin in the place of
certain specified sinners. In addition to putting away the sins of
His people, Christ's redemption secured everything necessary for
their salvation, including faith which unites them to Him. The gift
of faith is infallibly applied by the Spirit to all for whom Christ
died, therefore guaranteeing their salvation.
Christ's redeeming work of
course was intended to save the elect (all who would eventually be
saved) only and actually secured salvation for them since God
foreknew they would come to Him. Praise the Lord! These specific
sinners received substitionary death of Christ, and God actually
foreknew them that they would choose so that God could grace them
and given them that redemption which was enduring (osas arminianism).
Faith is united in them with Christ as increased faith, not just
God's first faith right for them to choose given by God in making
man in His image. The sin of calvinism on this point is that again
of zombiism whereby their god must premake or predesign them, so
they think, for salvation, not for hell, while others for hell, not
for heaven. What an evil thought they have, even if only
subconsciously or unaware of it in them. This is why most calvinists
are not regenerated. They only think they are in their minds while
their spirit is dead, unable to recognize this because of being
insensitive to these things of God.
Conclusion: particular redemption and limited atonement is full of
pride and erroneous for
God's children.
The Holy Spirit Can Be Effectually Resisted
Resistible Grace
The Spirit calls inwardly all those who are called outwardly by the
gospel invitation; He does all that He can to bring every sinner to
salvation. But inasmuch as man is free, he can successfully resist
the Spirit's call. The Spirit cannot regenerate the sinner until he
believes; faith (which is man's contribution) proceeds and makes
possible the new birth. Thus, man's free will limits the Spirit in
the application of Christ's saving work. The Holy Spirit can only
draw to Christ those who allow Him to have His way with them. Until
the sinner responds, the Spirit cannot give life. God's grace,
therefore, is not invincible; it can be, and often is, resisted and
thwarted by man.
Faith is God's
contribution, given by God by creating man in God's image. Man can
not have faith without this loving act of God first. This is God's
faith to man to give man the right to choose Him, which we may call
first faith right to choose. Man does not contribute this
which God has just given the man for it still comes from God; only
that, now man has what God has given him, and may do what he wills
to choose or not to choose since he is made in God's image, as to be
expected. The new birth is still God's doing, man does not save
himself. Since man does not save himself, God does the saving after
man chooses, and was given the right to choose by being given first
faith from God Himself in the act of being made in His image. Man's
freewill does not limit God's saving work, for nothing can limit
God's saving work, just as God's image can not be reduced in the man
either for eternity. Man limits, even to hell, his destiny by not
accepting God's perfect saving work; resisting, refusing to receive,
but God's saving work is never demeaned, nor is God's image in the
man. Satan will try to demean both God's image in the man as do
calvinists, and perfect saving grace by bearing false witness
against osas arminians, but let us refuse this calvinism god. Just
because many men do not choose Christ does not mean God's grace is
not invincible. Just because a man wants to go to hell, it does not
change the fact that man's grace is invincible. It will always be
perfectly invincible. The unsaved man resists and thus does not
receive the grace of God's perfect invincible redemption, that is
perfect in not making man a zombie and God Himself not being a
zombie redeemer. I love this about God. It is sad to say that I have
never met a calvinist able to appreciate that God does not premake
men for salvation or "stack the deck".
Conclusion: The Holy
Spirit can be resisted to refuse eternal life, since the sinner must make an
effective choice for God to receive His life.
The Efficacious Call of
the Spirit or
Irresistible Grace
In addition to the outward general call to
salvation which is made to everyone who hears the gospel, the Holy
Spirit extends to the elect a special inward call that inevitably
brings them to salvation. The internal call (which is made only to
the elect) cannot be rejected; it always results in conversion. By
means of this special call the Spirit irresistibly draws sinners to
Christ. He is not limited in His work of applying salvation by man's
will, nor is He dependent upon man's cooperation for success. The
Spirit graciously causes the elect sinner to cooperate, to believe,
to repent, to come freely and willingly to Christ. God's grace,
therefore, is invincible; it never fails to result in the salvation
of those to whom it is extended.
The internal call is
rejected for it is not received by many men unreceiving. That is
reality. It never results in conversion. That is why there is a
heaven and a hell. Whether outward or inward, it is refused and God
does not want to be with these ones in the new city. There is no
special call for if there was a special call, that would be zombiism.
The reason we are made known that we are elect is to give us comfort
that now that we are saved we can know it unwaveringly intuitively
and in our conscience in communion with God. God requires mans
choice. God does not force man to choose, which is required if God
did not let the man choose. When God saves, He does not need the man
to do the salvation work for that is God's work alone. Instead, God
longs to see the man choose, and this is something I have never met
a calvinist to appreciate revealing their mostly unregenerated
hearts as they think they are saved through zombiism. Therefore,
God's grace is invincible, and not dependent on being a zombie god
saver (which is not invincible but a lesser god), and such salvation
never fails for God has foreknown and applies that salvation to the
saved believer when he believes.
Conclusion: Grace is
resistible (that is, eternal life can be refused) and the Spirit's
call is effective, but not accepted by those that resist.
Falling from Grace
Most
Arminians Believe in Preservation of the Saints
Those who believe and are truly saved can lose
their salvation by failing to keep up their faith, etc. All Arminians have not been agreed on this point; some have held that
believers are eternally secure in Christ - that once a sinner is
regenerated, he can never be lost.
In fact, most arminians
believe this, so much so that this section should be labelled
perseverance and preservation of the saints based on God's
foreknowing (osas).
Perseverance of the
Saints
All who are chosen by God, redeemed by Christ,
and given faith by the Spirit are eternally saved. They are kept in
faith by the power of Almighty God and thus persevere to the end.
This is not the same kind
of preservation of the saints as for osas arminians. The problem
with the calvinism version of perseverance of the saints is that it
was dependent on the pride of believing one is premade for
salvation. This is not true perseverance or preservation of the
saints. This is fantasy life.
According
to Arminianism
Salvation is accomplished through the
combined efforts of God (who takes the initiative) and man (who must
respond) - man's response being the determining factor. God has provided
salvation for everyone, but His provision becomes effective only for those
who, of their own free will, "choose" to cooperate with Him and accept His
offer of grace. At the crucial point, man's will plays a decisive role; thus
man, not God, determines who will be recipients of the gift of salvation.
What osas
arminians actually believe is that man's response is not the determining
factor since man did not create man, but man was created by God so the
determining factor was God since God first created man, and God is the one
who ends up doing the saving and allowing the man to make the choice in the
first place. God provided man with the right to choose and God made that
so-called determining factor as the image of God in man, giving it to the
man to choose in His image. His provision of salvation is effective for
everyone, but it is only employed to those who choose God; truly effective
for all, but not placed into effect for all for not all want to be
effectively saved. Since man is made in God's image, it is now man's choice
since God has perfectly made the man to freely choose. This is God's will.
God is the determining factor of the recepient of salvation as God waits
upon the choice that He give the man to choose. This is what God truly
adores and longs for to walk with one day. How sad that calvinists
effectively refuse this truth in their hearts.
According to
Calvinism
Salvation is accomplished by the almighty
power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them,
the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the elect to
faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The
entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and
is by grace alone. Thus God, not man, determines who will be the recipients
of the gift of salvation.
Salvation is accomplished by the
almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people by
foreknowledge, the Son died for not just them but for all men (thou not all
men accept), the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the
elect to faith and repentance (by letting the man choose) as is afforded all
men if they accepted, thereby causing the saved to believe because the ones
who choose to believe (being given this ability as all men have this
ability) receive the gift of eternal life. The entire process of creating
man in His image, electing the man based on foreknowledge, redeeming the man
which is regeneration, is the work of God and is by grace alone applied
after needing the man to make the choice for God as God has set up man made
in His image to be able to do. Thus, God determines who will receive
salvation, though not by premaking them for salvation, for that is of the
evil spirit of calvinism, but rather by allowing the man to choose.