Bored Protestant

John 1:13 and 15:16 are proof texts that Calvinists use to try to establish their doctrines on scripture but it’s not surprising that those verses don’t prove reformed doctrine in any way. Let’s look at John 1 first “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” We see here that this verse is dealing with the new birth of man which no arminian denies as can be seen from theologians like Wesley “Who were born - Who became the sons of God, not of blood - Not by descent from Abraham, nor by the will of the flesh - By natural generation, nor by the will of man - Adopting them, but of God - By his Spirit.” We also see this in Thomas Coke he says “They who thus believed on him, became possessed of this privilege; not in consequence of their being born of blood, or of their being descended from the loins of the holy patriarchs, or sharing in circumcision and the blood of the sacrifices; nor could they ascribe it to the will of the flesh, or

"For Arminius, because of the gracious estimation of God, he credits our faith as our righteousness. The righteousness of Christ is not imputed to believers, according to at least the later Arminius. He did not believe Christ’s righteousness could be imputed. In discussing justification, Arminius made use of the Latin term acceptilatio, which means a “formal release from an obligation.” Imperfect faith, then, is accepted by God’s gracious estimation as righteousness. Or to put it another way, the human act of faith is by grace counted as evangelical righteousness, as if it were the complete fulfillment of the whole law, even though it is not."   This interesting quote comes from Mark Jones book Faith. Hope. Love.: The Christ-Centered Way to Grow in Grace. But the surprising thing here is that he does not cite Arminius which is surprising since he is making the claim that this is the view of Arminius. But I will prove this has no validity at all by looking at Armin