I believe there is one important biblical truth the Arminian and Calvinist had missed. There are so many debates, accusations, and arguments that have been going on in the past and until now, but it only focuses on the spiritual side. They both overlook the other side of the truth which is on the natural-physical side and it is all about their body-the human body. It is not the two opposing views are the real issue, but the body that is contrary to the Spirit. The main conflict is not on the two contested views, but on the body and Spirit. Gal 5:16-21
In the spiritual realm, there’s no problem at all and there’s no question at all, anyone who is in Christ is a new creation 2 Cor 5:17- forgiven, justified, blameless, holy and righteous in the sight of God because all sins have been paid by Jesus. It is finished nothing more to be done. However, in the natural realm, in the physical body which is the mortal body actually lies the big problem that there must be something to be worked out.
In the area of the physical body there are sin-causing-parts namely the eye, the hand and the tongue where sin is active and living ever since at childhood. Everybody has an ingrained sin from birth. And for as long as the “saved person” is in the body, the part that causes sin can still live and be active at any moment anytime, anywhere and under any circumstances.
No one can’t deny it, those wretched and fleshly part craves for the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh. It’s totally has no desire for spiritual things only lustful desires Gal 5:16-25. Like an airplane flying on autopilot, the body yield automatically to its lustful cravings, always acting on its own and the more trying to control it, the more struggle it becomes Rom 7:14-20. For that reason, many who claimed they are truly saved or always saved were still slaves of the sin living in those parts of their body. Only a few are in the good ground and grow in the Spirit while many are with among the worldly Mat 13:7-9, enslave and entangled again and again by the sinful workings of those parts.
Let all be reminded that not all who say “Lord, Lord” will enter heaven Mat 7:21-23 that in the same way not all who claimed they are “truly saved” or “always saved” will enter heaven. Why will they not enter heaven? Because they didn’t know that their eye, hand and tongue conceives sin little by little Jam 1:15, until sin reign and become their master again Rom 6:12.
Regardless of the views claimed by one and the other, there within their body are the dangerous parts- the eye and the hand with the tongue which is the most dangerous part Jam 3:1-8. All parts are restless evil. Everyone should always watch out their own parts. Charles Spurgeon said, “Beware of no man more than yourselves; we carry our worst enemies within us”. Apostle Paul himself knows very well the condition of his own body and he always disciplined his body and put it into subjection. 1Cor 9:27
Both Arminian and Calvinist dwell in the same corrupted body, has the same flesh and blood and no bodies are “holier than thou”. In fact, the bible said “No flesh and blood can enter heaven” 1 Cor 15:50 and God are no respecter of person Acts 10:34 and that includes group, church, denomination etc.
Unless they both settle on these bodily issues, (saving the parts of the body) there would be more soul along with the whole body that might be put in danger. Mark 9:43-48
To learn more about this thing:
See The Paradox of Biblical Salvation
