It may or may not be technically true that you were not a Christian while believing an Arminian theology, you are best able to vouch for your own conversion. While the old-fashioned antidote for experience based theology was and remains sola scriptura, it cannot be wrong to deny the existence of our personal experiences, or their validity to us. They are milestones on our journey through life. But we should be careful not to generalize from them.<br><br>My own experience is when I came to Christ as a child, I went to my parents' church, which happened to Arminian. As I look back on it, I would say that God simply used the most readily available church as a tool to begin to grow my faith in him. There were few Calvinist churches in my community, and they were not accessible to me at that time.<br><br>But can there be converted elect in Arminian churches? Where else could they go? There are too many, don't you think, for the few Calvinist and Reformed churches in existence? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/dizzy.gif" alt="dizzy" title="dizzy[/img] For the time being, I suppose they must content themselves with Arminianism whether they know they believe it or not. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/wink.gif" alt="wink" title="wink[/img]

Last edited by El_ajo; Sat Aug 30, 2003 12:15 AM.