Sometimes I believe that people are more interested in arguing over Calvinism vs. Arminianism than sharing Jesus. In his book, Southern Baptist Thought Since 1845: Has Our Theology Changed, Paul Basden writes about our history of theology, saying that predestination is that doctrine that relates God’s purpose to the human hope of salvation. The relation may be seen as absolute or relative, eternal or temporal, conditional or unconditional. It concerns the mystery of God’s grace, the certainty of human sin, and the promise of salvation. Moreover, it concerns not only God’s will and power, but also human freedom and responsibility.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why there is such an insistence to the point of broken fellowship by some to either be entirely in one camp or the other. I have trouble with some points in both and embrace some points in both. I ran across a concise description of the two camps from www.gotquestions.org that I have included below followed by my take on the two positions point by point. I will show you my score along with my assessment.
Calvinism holds to the total depravity of man while Arminianism holds to partial depravity. Total depravity states that every aspect of humanity is tainted by sin; therefore, human beings are unable to come to God on their own accord. Partial depravity states that every aspect of humanity is tainted by sin, but not to the extent that human beings are unable to place faith in God of their own accord. FULL POST 

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