Is Grace Cooperative?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What is the classical Arminian view of human freedom and divine grace? Today, R.C. Sproul examines the teaching of Jacob Arminius and his followers to identify how these views differ from Reformed theology.
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R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we begin today's episode of renewing your mind, we invite you to stay with us through |
| 0:04.8 | the end of the program to hear how you can request a featured hardcover book from |
| 0:09.3 | Ligadere Ministries. |
| 0:11.5 | If God only gives effectual grace for conversion to some people and not others, |
| 0:21.8 | than in the final analysis, |
| 0:24.7 | it is God and not man who gets the credit for your salvation, |
| 0:30.3 | but also would get the blame for the lack of it. |
| 0:35.6 | Music the blame for the lack of it. Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:45.3 | Today, Dr. R. C. Sproul provides some helpful context on the differences between Armenianism |
| 0:51.3 | and Reformed theology. And he's going to provide biblical evidence to prove that |
| 0:56.0 | without God's sovereign intervention, we cannot be saved. Let's join R.C. Now. |
| 1:03.9 | In today's session, I'm going to do something a little bit different from our normal procedure. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm going to start with a pop quiz. I'm |
| 1:13.6 | going to ask you to see if you can identify the author of the following citation. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm going to read this quotation as it goes as follows. In the fall, the free will of man towards the true good is not only wounded, maimed, infirmed, bent, and weakened, but it is also imprisoned, destroyed, and lost. |
| 1:50.0 | It has no powers except as it is excited by divine grace. |
| 1:59.9 | I think if I put that question before my seminary students and asked them to |
| 2:05.1 | identify the author of it that none of them could do it, because the person who wrote those |
| 2:10.9 | words was James Arminius, the father of Armenianism. |
| 2:20.1 | And that statement sounds as Augustinian, as Calvinistic and reformed, as a statement could |
| 2:27.7 | ever sound about the nature of our will in the fall. |
| 2:34.9 | And it illustrates something that we need to say at the very beginning of this discussion |
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