Irresistible grace says that all people resist God's will («you always resist the Holy Spirit,» Acts 7:51).
Not exact matches
For instance, 67 percent affirm that «God's
grace is
irresistible,» and 58 percent
say they believe that «people do not choose to become Christians; God chooses and calls people who respond to him.»
To exclude boasting, one may
say that God works faith in our hearts, but that this
grace is not
irresistible.
And when Jesus
says that no one can come to Him unless it was granted to him by the Father, this is seen as proof for
Irresistible Grace.
My sophomore year of college, during a short - lived Reformed phase, I
said it was because of the
irresistible grace of God.