"You are funny with your arminian-calvinistic "war"! I suppose non of this views is 100% right! Maby 50/50? I made the expierience that to discuss about this matter is wasting time! Grace, predestination, human will works anyhow togehter. One thing is clear! We cant deserve our salvation!
It's by no means a war to me, I just thought, one good turn deserves another.
I agree none of us deserve salvation. I was in a fellowship that was heavy into works, then went to a fellowship that used the word grace a lot, but didn't believe in it. The pastor did some great Bible studies on grace then when you'd talk to him about it, he would throw, the "but" you also need to do whatever, that's not grace. They were still leaning towards works, what I mean by works is anything thing no mater how small that you do that gets you God's favor, isn't grace, it's works.
It was a series of studies I did that helped me understand grace, they were the Commandments of God, my sinful nature and the beauty of God's holiness, that brought me to an understanding of His grace. Which has caused me to rethink how the Scripture are interpreted. I co-operate with God in my salvation, but He had to bring to life in the Spirit before I could, start co-operating with Him. I don't consider myself a Calvinist, because I don't believe all that those in the Reformed faith believe. What really got me was all the misinformation that I was taught and that I taught about the Reformed faith, which was hyper-calvinism, not Calvinism. I'm think of writing out what I believe, so that people who misunderstand what I believe.