Understanding Christianity

Dr. Sean Cole interacts with Provisonism which denies total inability or any need for an internal, extra, supernatural grace of God on the soul to bring a sinner to faith. He provides some quotes from historical sources such as J.N.D. Kelly's Early Christian Doctrines on Pelagianism. He also quotes from Pseudo-Macarius. He references leading Eastern Orthodox theologian Timothy Ware. As he gives these quotations, he urges the listener to determine if they sound like statements from modern-day Provisionists. This little excursion through some historical sources shows how Provisionism is not Arminianism, but closer to Eastern Orthodoxy and semi-Pelagianism. www.seancole.net