First of all, one more point to address to your claim that Arminians are non-believers who are going to hell:
If they are all, in fact, unregenerate, then how is it that they are spiritually alive enough to have faith in Christ as Lord(boss) and as Savior, admitting freely that they are sinners who justly deserve damnation, but believing in the blood of Christ as the atonement for their ins - believing that when they stand before God, they will be counted righteous, because they are clothed in the righteous of Christ.
If they were unregenerate, wouldn't it be impossible for them to have that faith and submission to God???
Thus, IF you are using the word "tolerance" to mean "mercy" in regard to their punishment, then yes I would agree that death would be harsh, to say the least. However, I can sympathize with a punishment of exile...
No, "mercy" implies "reducing or taking away the JUST punishment due." Since there is no just punishment for believing in God with all your heart and mind to the best of your ability, "mercy" is not an appropriate term.
"Tolerance" is an appropriate term: We should each tolerate it when other people believe a doctrine mistakenly, for we ALL are mistaken about many doctrines, being fallible humans and all. Learning about God is a lifelong process. If God tolerates his people sometimes being mistaken about this or that aspect of doctrine, we should also be tolerant when we see mistakes in others (and who knows - we may be the ones who are mistaken).
If a government believes that idolatry, blaspheme and such sins/crimes against God are worth of death or exile, then they are within their God-given rights to enact them.
You and me disagree about the authority that God gives to the government. According to Paul, the government is given authority to hold the sword against EVIL, against WRONG-DOING, not against faith, love, patience, joy, peace, goodness and self-control, against which there are no God-approved laws. Romans kills Christians by throwing them to lions, Islam kills Christians (especially if they converted from Islam), the old Catholic church killed many protestants - they kill these people for their faith - and all of that was not within their God-given rights, but rather were sins. That's why in relevation, the martyrs ask God not IF they will be avenged, but WHEN.
making "faith", a free-will choice which they wrote was the more than the proximate cause of justification; i.e., it was the ultimate cause of justification, thus reversing what Scripture and all the Protestant Churches affirmed. This grievous error has been maintained by all Arminians since that time...
Your claim:
1 - Arminians believe that faith is the ultimate CAUSE of
justification.
2 - All Arminians maintain this
Yet, I see not one quote of Arminius that says this. I have read the Remonstrance 5 points, and it does not say this. I know many Arminians, and I have not heard one say that. I know Arminians who would deny that faith is the cause, and confirm instead that the will of God is the cause.
Arminius agrees with me that God's will is the cause of justification in this system:
“'[faith] is a condition prescribed and required by God...' and: 'This is the will of God, that whosoever believeth in the God hath eternal life...'” - Arminius
The followers of Arminius agree with me that God's purpose is the ultimate cause of justificationin this system:
“That God, by an eternal and unchangeable purpose in Christ Jesus His Son, before the foundations of the world, hath determined, out of the fallen, sinful race of men, to save in Christ, for Christs's sake, and through Christ, those who, through the grace of the Holy Ghost, shall believe...”
I have given proof double-fold that God's WILL is named the ultimate cause of justification, and also for the decision to only justify those who meet His condition.
You will find quotes that faith is the condition of justification, and the condition of election, but not the CAUSE.
IMPORTANT: IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN "condition" AND "cause," PLEASE CONSULT A DICTIONARY BEFORE REPLYING.
