Are Arminians closer to Provisionists than the Reformed? No
There has been question floating around twitter on if Arminians are close to the Provisionists in soteriology. When I see the question, I already answer without a second thought that we aren't are close to them. But I want to explain my reasoning on why I say this since some would think because we aren't Reformed, we should be close in our soteriology. Man After the Fall This is where any talk about soteriology should start since our view of man will impact areas like man's will, grace and most importantly the Holy Spirit's role in salvation of man. Now first we need to cover the Arminian view on man and as article 7&8 of the 25 articles of religion explains about man it says "Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclined to