NUTS
FOR ARMINIANS TO CRACK
Here
is a sampling of questions from the work "Nuts For Arminians To Crack" by
Elder J.B. Hardy, Sr.. First published in 1945
FREE AGENCY
1.
Are all men both saint and sinner free agents? If so, is not the sinner as free as
the saint?
2. If a sinner cannot
come to Christ of his own free will, is he a free agent?
3. If all sinners
possess will and power to come to Christ, why did Christ say (John 6:44), "No man can
come unto Me except the Father which hath sent Me draw him?"
4. Has any man the
power to refuse to come to Christ when the Father draws him?
5. Are those
characters free agents that shall do wickedly and none of them shall understand? (Dan.
12:10)
6. Were those free
agents that Peter said (H Peter 2:12), were made to be taken and destroyed, and should
utterly perish?
7. Were those free
agents who were before of old ordained to this condemnation? (Jude 4.)
8. Are those free
agents that Jesus says (John 5:25), shall hear, and they that hear shall live?
9. Are those free
agents of whom God says (Heb. 8:10-11), "I will be to them a God and they shall be to
Me a people; and they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother,
saying know the Lord?"
10. Could not a free agent believe, notwithstanding Jesus said,
(Acts 13:41), "I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe,
though a man declare it unto you?"
11. Would not the doctrine of free agency make man the cause of
his own salvation?
12. Can man be a free agent and God be a sovereign?
13. Is any one free that is a servant?
14. Are not all men the servants of sin until they are made free
by the Son? (John 8:34-36.)
15. Is the sinner free to wig, free to choose, free to love, free
to become a Christian, or, free to let it all alone?
16. If we are saved by our free will, is it not a fact that the
only difference between the saved and the lost is that the saved made a better use of
their will?
22. If God only wills to save those that are willing to be
saved, is not God's will dependent upon man's will?
23. Does God work all things after the counsel of His own will
(Ephe- 1:1 1), or does He work some things after the will of the sinner?
24. Is the unchangeable God (Mal. 3:6), changed by the will of the
sinner?
25. Does salvation or damnation depend upon the use that a man
makes of his will?
26. Does a sinner have the will to do God's will prior to being
born again? If so, is his will changed in the spiritual birth?
29. Does God begin the work of grace in the sinner independently,
or is the sinners will first consulted?
31. Does Christ have to get the consent of the sinner before
He can save him?
HOW ARE SINNERS
SAVED?
32. Does the sinner have to accept Christ in order to be saved,
and reject Him to be lost? If so, is not Christ limited in the work of salvation to what
the sinner sees fit to do?
33. Is belief a condition of salvation, or is it an evidence of
salvation?
34. Do we have to believe in order to be saved or is the believer
already in possession of eternal life?
38. Does Christ save sinners or do sinners save themselves, or is
salvation a partnership work?
39. If sinners are saved otherwise than by grace alone, Will some
one please cite the chapter and verse which says so?
40. If God purposed to save all men and changes not, will not all
be saved? If not, why not?
41. If God works all things after the counsel of His own will
(Ephe. 1: I 1), was it His will to save those that will not be saved?
42. If Christ came to save sinners and did not do it (I Tim.
1:15), is not Christ a failure?
43. If Christ is a failure, upon what does the Christian's hope
depend?
44. If grace is favor bestowed upon an unworthy object, does not
grace stop where worthiness begins?
47. When a sinner is quickened by the spirit, is he not in
possession of eternal life?
48. Is there any intermediate space between life and death?
49. Do we have to act in order to live, or does life always
precede action?
50. Did Christ come to seek and to save sinners (Luke 19:10), or
to save those that seek Him?
51. If sinners have to seek God in order to be saved, and none
seek Him (Rom. 3:1 1), will any be saved?
52. Does not the saving of sinners come before the calling, and
does not God do both, and are we either saved or called according to our works? (II Tim.
1:9)
53. If God saves sinners according to His own purpose (II Tim.
1:9), is not the plan of salvation as old as God's purpose?
54. If Christ came to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15), and finished the
work (John 19:30), what is left for the preachers and sinners to do in the work of
salvation?
55. Were the different gifts for the salvation of sinners, or for
the edifying of the body of Christ? (Ephe. 4:11-12)
56. Could there be an effect without a cause?
57. Is the first cause of salvation the work of God (Phil. 1:6),
or the work of the sinner?
58. Do good works produce the Spirit, or does the Spirit produce
good works?
59. If Christ only made salvation possible and the sinner makes it
sure by his acts, which deserves the more praise?
60. If belief a condition of salvation, is it not a cause of
salvation?
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