How do you use Arminians in a sentence? See 9 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Arminians meaning
plural of Arminian
Using Arminians
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Arminian
- In the example corpus, arminians often appears in combinations such as: arminians would.
Context around Arminians
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Arminians
- In this selection, "arminians" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, classical, wesleyan, words, means, believe and firmly stand out and add context to how "arminians" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also some arminians like roger and atonement were arminians. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "arminians" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with arminians
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
These Arminians reject the concept of individual election entirely, preferring to understand the doctrine in corporate terms. (17 words)
The first Baptists–called " General Baptists " because of their confession of a "general" or unlimited atonement, were Arminians. (18 words)
To Arminians, however, both initial salvation and eternal security are "by faith alone"; hence "by faith first to last". (19 words)
Dongell, Joseph and Walls, Jerry Why I Am Not a Calvinist, 45 There are also some Arminians, like Roger Olson, who believe Open theism to be an alternative view that a Christian can have. (34 words)
Classical Arminians would agree with Calvinists that this substitution was penal satisfaction for all of the elect, while most Wesleyan Arminians would maintain that the substitution was governmental in nature. (30 words)
However, ex nihilo creation, a belief also commonly found among Arminians, means that God determined everything that exists, including the will of each soul, without drawing on anything but himself. (30 words)
Example sentences (9)
Classical Arminians would agree with Calvinists that this substitution was penal satisfaction for all of the elect, while most Wesleyan Arminians would maintain that the substitution was governmental in nature.
Dongell, Joseph and Walls, Jerry Why I Am Not a Calvinist, 45 There are also some Arminians, like Roger Olson, who believe Open theism to be an alternative view that a Christian can have.
However, ex nihilo creation, a belief also commonly found among Arminians, means that God determined everything that exists, including the will of each soul, without drawing on anything but himself.
In other words, Arminians believe that they owe their election to their faith, whereas Calvinists believe that they owe their faith to their election.
Some Calvinists assert that the Arminian perspective presents a synergistic system of Salvation and therefore is not only by grace, while Arminians firmly reject this conclusion.
The emerging Baptist movement in 17th-century England, for example, was a microcosm of the historic debate between Calvinists and Arminians.
The first Baptists–called " General Baptists " because of their confession of a "general" or unlimited atonement, were Arminians.
These Arminians reject the concept of individual election entirely, preferring to understand the doctrine in corporate terms.
To Arminians, however, both initial salvation and eternal security are "by faith alone"; hence "by faith first to last".
Common combinations with arminians
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: