What do you think Jacob Arminius taught about Free Will? Did he teach that we could do anything we want? It might surprise you to read a sampling of his words for yourself. In the below quote he is speaking of the sinner, which “[b]y this foul deed…into a state of the deepest infelicity, which is under the Dominion of Sin.”[1] Though this is only part of one paragraph, it should help in showing part of what he believed. He says,

“In this state [see above quote], the Free Will of man towards the True Good is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and…weakened; but it is also…imprisoned, destroyed, and lost: And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace: For Christ has said, ‘Without me ye can do nothing.’ St. Augustine, after having diligently meditated upon each word in this passage, speaks this: ‘Christ does not say, Without me ye can do but little; neither does He say, Without me ye cannot do any arduous thing, nor Without me ye can do it with difficulty: But He says, Without me ye can do Nothing! Nor does He say, Without me ye cannot…complete any thing; but Without me ye can do nothing.’”

[1] James Arminius, The Works of James Arminius, V. 2 (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1986), 192. The below quote is from this same page.