210 John 3:16 not an Arminian text By the way, if I might digress for a moment. John 3:16 is not an Arminian text. There is not an Arminian text in the Bible. Those who teach the Arminian system manage to come up with their proof texts by taking those verses, which either identify the children of God, or make conditional promises to the children of God, and applying them to the wicked.
On the basis of those texts—which are the property of the children of God—they tell the wicked, “If you will do thus and so you will become a child of God.” But those promises were never intended for the wicked. Those verses were intended for heaven-born souls. Without exception, those texts are either conditional promises to those who are already born of the Spirit of God, or they are texts which identify the heaven-born soul by describing his conduct. No one has the right to take those texts and pretend they are propositions directed toward the wicked. hlh