Kathi, here is a chart that might help.
http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/r...sm/calvinism-vs-arminianism-comparison-chart/.
Hope this answers your question. I'm very busy, so this is the best I can do right now.
Wow a lot of problems with the information provided in this link, I believe the writer presents a straw man argument.
Free Will or Human Ability
Although human nature was seriously affected by the fall, man has not been left in a state of total spiritual helplessness. God graciously enables every sinner to repent and believe, but He does not interfere with man’s freedom. Each sinner possesses a free will, and his eternal destiny depends on how he uses it. Man’s freedom consists of his ability to choose good over evil in spiritual matters; his will is not enslaved to his sinful nature. The sinner has the power to either cooperate with God’s Spirit and be regenerated or resist God’s grace and perish. The lost sinner needs the Spirit’s assistance, but he does not have to be regenerated by the Spirit before he can believe, for faith is man’s act and precedes the new birth. Faith is the sinner’s gift to God; it is man’s contribution to salvation.
Man's will toward the true good is completely destroyed as a result of the fall, this is Arminius' own words. So that isn't true.
Also, faith is something that God gives to us, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. He does not therefore believe for us, but as the Jews did, we can resist the Holy Spirit to our own destruction. Faith is not the sinner's gift to God, or his contribution to salvation. It is the realization that there is nothing that we can do to save ourselves, so that we then trust in Jesus and what he did for our salvation. This is a terrible misrepresentation of what we believe.
Conditional Election
God’s choice of certain individuals unto salvation before the foundation of the world was based upon His foreseeing that they would respond to His call. He selected only those whom He knew would of themselves freely believe the gospel. Election therefore was determined by or conditioned upon what man would do. The faith which God foresaw and upon which He based His choice was not given to the sinner by God (it was not created by the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit) but resulted solely from man’s will. It was left entirely up to man as to who would believe and therefore as to who would be elected unto salvation. God chose those whom He knew would, of their own free will, choose Christ. Thus the sinner’s choice of Christ, not God’s choice of the sinner, is the ultimate cause of salvation.
Of course they only mention election on the basis of foreknowledge, which is clearly the weaker argument.
Universal Redemption or General Atonement
Christ’s redeeming work made it possible for everyone to be saved but did not actually secure the salvation of anyone. Although Christ died for all men and for every man, only those who believe on Him are saved. His death enabled God to pardon sinners on the condition that they believe, but it did not actually put away anyone’s sins. Christ’s redemption becomes effective only if man chooses to accept it.
Scripture clearly teaches that the salvation of men is secured when they believe by grace. To say it didn't secure the salvation of anyone is incorrect, it secured the salvation of all those who would believe, as it was intended. Whoever believes has eternal life.
The Holy Spirit Can Be Effectually Resisted
The Spirit calls inwardly all those who are called outwardly by the gospel invitation; He does all that He can to bring every sinner to salvation. But inasmuch as man is free, he can successfully resist the Spirit’s call. The Spirit cannot regenerate the sinner until he believes; faith (which is man’s contribution) precedes and makes possible the new birth. Thus, man’s free will limits the Spirit in the application of Christ’s saving work. The Holy Spirit can only draw to Christ those who allow Him to have His way with them. Until the sinner responds, the Spirit cannot give life. God’s grace, therefore, is not invincible; it can be, and often is, resisted and thwarted by man.
This is another misrepresentation, and perhaps my biggest problem with Calvinistic teachers is that they seem incapable of presenting our position accurately and fairly.
We don't believe that God does "all that He can to bring every sinner to salvation," God could overcome their ability to ultimately decide life or death (we must remember that this ability is only possible with God's grace), but he chooses not to. Arminians believe that God has a permissive will, where he permits at times, beings to act freely of their own volition and thus are responsible for their own actions. This is the kind of representation that makes my blood boil, presenting my beliefs as if I believe that God's grace can be "thwarted by man." I believe Scripture, which teaches that the Holy Spirit can be resisted (Acts 7:51), and that God graciously reveals and convicts us of our sin and draws us to Christ. I do not believe that Scripture teaches some kind of regeneration precedes faith, but rather is on account of our faith. So the only other option would be for God to force certain people, which would make him a respecter of persons.
Falling From Grace
Those who believe and are truly saved can lose their salvation by failing to keep up their faith. etc. All Arminian, have not been agreed on this point; some have held that believers are eternally secure in Christ — that once a sinner is regenerated. he can never be lost.
Very little information is given on this point, but they're at least right about the disagreement. Their understanding of the doctrine though makes it seem like the believer is all on their own to keep up their faith, which is definitely not true.
According to Arminianism:Salvation is accomplished through the combined efforts ofGod (who takes the initiative) and man(who must respond)—man’s response being the determining factor. God has provided salvation for everyone, but His provision becomes effective only for those who, of their own free will, “choose” to cooperate with Him and accept His offer of grace. At the crucial point, man’s will plays a decisive role; thus man, not God, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.REJECTED by the Synod of DortThis was the system of thought contained in the “Remonstrance” (though the “five points” were not originally arranged in this order). It was submitted by the Arminians to the Church of Holland in 1610 for adoption but was rejected by the Synod of Dort in 1619 on the ground that it was unscriptural.
Salvation is accomplished on the Cross of Calvary, and it is those who trust in that who are saved. They accomplish nothing for themselves, but embrace that which has been accomplished for them. Man's wickedness is the definitive factor for why men reject God, not God's refusal to elect them for some arbitrary reason. God has given Christ to be a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also the whole world, such that whoever trust themselves in what Christ accomplished is saved. Indeed Scripture teaches that salvation accords with grace because it is on the basis of faith in Christ.
I do not see a position of boasting for the tax collector who beat his chest and said, "God have mercy on me a sinner." It is this man who goes home justified, and this man has no room to boast. Everyone who humbles himself will be exalted, and those who exalt themselves will be humbled. This is the teaching of Scripture.
If Arminianism is what they presented then I wouldn't believe in it either, and this is one of the reasons so many remain Calvinists as they never see a proper presentation of the other side.
