Quote Originally Posted by Billyray View Post
Bump for an Arminian response. Do you guys agree or disagree with the above post?

It has nothing to do with Calvinism or Arminianism, but what the word of God says. Christians must align themselves with the teaching of Scriptures and not of men. The Bereans didn't just take Paul or Silas's word, they searched the Scriptures. God provides sufficient grace to all; pleads with us ("come unto me" Matt. 11.28) so "If any... whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely" (John 7.37, Rev. 22.17). Man is not regenerated by doing something special but by believing the Lord Jesus as his Savior: "to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1.12-13)

Regeneration is God making a person spiritually alive, a new creation, as a result of faith in Jesus Christ. Before salvation, we are degenerate. After salvation we are regenerated. Conversion is the outward manifestation of regeneration.

The attainment of the fullness of such conversion is by the gradual appreciation of truth, resulting not only from regeneration, and knowledge, but from spiritual illumination of the mind. This is why the born again Christian is able to understand Scripture.

The bottom line is that FAITH is the key for these things to take place. This is what God's word says.