Enjoying God Ministries

The most basic difference is in the relationship between faith and regeneration, or what most Christians call the experience of the new birth. Arminians believe that faith precedes regeneration (or at best, is simultaneous with it). In other words, we believe and then God blesses us with the new birth. The Calvinist insists, rightly so in my opinion, that since we are spiritually dead and hostile toward God and disinclined to any act of worship or repentance that the Spirit must first impart new life, regenerate and renew our inner being, all of which results in the human act of faith and repentance. So, although some may argue that the "order" or "process" of how people are saved isn't important, I contend that it is. It indicates who, ultimately and decisively and finally, is responsible, and therefore deserving praise, for the salvation of the soul.