The Works of Arminius

[Aragorn]

In Dutch Protestant tradition this figure is of high importance:

James (Jacob) Arminius (1560-1609) was a Dutch theologian who studied, taught, and eventually broke with Calvinism. He was particularly at odds with John Calvin's emphasis on unconditional election and irresistible grace. The Synod of Dort (1618-19) strongly reaffirmed ultra-Calvinism in reaction to Arminius' growing influence. As a result, hundreds of Arminians -- also known as Remonstrants -- were removed from their pulpits. But Arminianism was not to be conquered. Its strong emphasis on free-will, salvation for all, and resistible grace, continued to be influential, finding perhaps its strongest proponent in John Wesley.

http://wesley.nnu.edu/arminianism/Arminius/index.htm

[Odin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC2ERvM_91Y

[sean]

Arminianism is just an attempt to re-catholicize the Reformation.

Arminius rejected the idea of predestination and determinism as formulated by Calvin and saw in the scriptures that God loves everyone and wants all to be saved. He didn't take a lot of issue with Calvin, but rather with Gomarus, another Dutch Calvinist theologian, who was more strict than Arminius. And predestination does not necessarily contradict free will, it just means that God already knows what you will choose.

They tend to believe that we all are called by God, and our free will is what gives us the choice as to whether or not we want to turn to God in repentance.

Arminians believe that God's grace works within every person, and that his grace enables us to be able to make a response to God's offer of salvation. Pre-Reformation people believed that salvation was through the grace of God alone, but that it was a free gift to be accepted or rejected, not a mandate thrust upon us.

God foreknows those who will respond and they are his elect. God's grace is resistible and many allow for the possibility of falling away. They will point out that God desires no one to perish, and all to come to Him, but the fact that some will still perish and not come to Him, as evidence of their position.

Calvinism states that God has elected who He will save, or not. He already made that determination before calling creation into existence.

Romans 8-9 is the go to argument against Arminianism, but predestination and election are mentioned all over the Bible. To Calvinism the universe follows a predestined fate whereas according to Arminianism people have free will. The reality is that the universe as a greater substance has a determined fate at the larger level. Thus our free will is limited and has bounds.

So basically Arminianism just robs God of his glory.