If you are a Calvinist, you may or
may not be a Christian.
Do you believe that you are born again when you put your faith in Jesus?
• If you answered yes, then you hold to a major tenet of Biblical Christianity and you probably are not a
Calvinist
• Calvinists believe that God must first give a person new life to enable faith; without first being made to
share the new life, they think that a person cannot believe.
• Christians argue that people are not given the gift of the new life until they believe.
• Christians hold that when a person believes, he is united with Christ and only then does he partake of
the new life and is born again; a person does not share in the new life without first being united with Christ
by faith, for “whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
• If you answered yes, then you hold to a major tenet of Biblical Christianity and you probably are not a
Calvinist
• Calvinists believe that God must first give a person new life to enable faith; without first being made to
share the new life, they think that a person cannot believe.
• Christians argue that people are not given the gift of the new life until they believe.
• Christians hold that when a person believes, he is united with Christ and only then does he partake of
the new life and is born again; a person does not share in the new life without first being united with Christ
by faith, for “whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
Doctrine does not affect one's
salvation - belief in Christ does. However, there exists a distinct possibility
that if your doctrine is false, as is the case with Calvinism, then you may
never have asked Jesus' forgiveness and as a result, you may not have received
salvation.
Material borrowed from
this site. All edits are mine.
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