Not By Knowledge, Lest Any Should Boast

“If an ‘Arminian’ is elect and chosen, then his election is not imperiled through his failure to understand the ninth chapter of Romans. Paul did not say, at the end of the eighth chapter, that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ except for shoddy exegesis. And if a ‘Calvinist’ is reprobate, then he cannot earn his way into the approval of God through a self-righteous mouthing of the doctrines of grace” (Mother Kirk, p. 87).