1. Find an Arminian.
2. Ask him/her if they have free will.
3. Make him/her cry.
4. Ask him/her to stop crying.
5. Remind him/her about the power of free will.
Also, discuss with them, why alcoholics, gluttons, cigarette smokers, porn-addicts, sluggards, gossipers, homosexuals, people with anger issues, unforgiveness, bitterness, why they cannot just "stop it" suddenly by the bare exercise of "free will" and stay off forever without the grace of God.
"Truly truly I say to you, whoever commits sin is the slave of sin." John 8:34
Augustine, "O God, command what you will, give me the grace to do what you command."
Also, discuss with them, why alcoholics, gluttons, cigarette smokers, porn-addicts, sluggards, gossipers, homosexuals, people with anger issues, unforgiveness, bitterness, why they cannot just "stop it" suddenly by the bare exercise of "free will" and stay off forever without the grace of God.
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John 8:34
Augustine, "O God, command what you will, give me the grace to do what you command."
Good points.
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