SteveR wrote:
Mike
Thats how the Canons of Dordt came about.
Such was in response to the heresy of arminianism as detailed by the Remonstrants, compare with Bible in hand both views:[URL=http://www.reformed.org/documents/index.html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/documents/canons_of_dordt.html]]]Canons of Dort[/URL]
'After Arminius's death, forty-three of his ministerial followers drafted and presented their heretical views to the States General of the Netherlands on five of these points in the Remonstrance of 1610. In this document and even more explicitly in later writings, the Arminians, who came to be called "Remonstrants," taught:
1.
Election based on foreseen faith
2.
the universal merits of Christ
3.
the free will of man due to only partial depravity
4.
the resistability of grace, and
5.
the possibility of a lapse from grace.
A departure from scripture 