cause of all things, even evil. Arminius could not accept this skewed view of Jehovah. Neither could Arminius accept that Calvinism’s predestination and election were not dependent on God’s foreknowledge. Arminius believed that God’s foreknowledge is “from all eternity.” Thus, he viewed it as an eternal foreknowledge that need not be redefined as foreordination or predestination—a redefinition consistently implemented by extreme and hyper-Calvinists (Reformed theologians). Arminius’ view of foreknowledge