Sentences with phrase «irresistible grace of god»

My sophomore year of college, during a short - lived Reformed phase, I said it was because of the irresistible grace of God.

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If the situation is such that it truly compromises in an irresistible way the liberty of the person, then he is in the grace of God, since the subjective elements for mortal sin are lacking.

The Calvinists on the other hand have their particular bias, precedence, of man having no inherent - free - will capacity to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and gifts that they interpret John 6:25 - 71 with — which interpretation is consistent with their precedence and consistent with their ideas of unconditional election and irresistible grace.

If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in election, does this not render history a mere process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace, with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?

God is z Bible & Theology Topics: Arminianism, Books by Jeremy Myers, Calvinism, Irresistible Grace, Jacobus Arminius, John Calvin, Limited Atonement, Perseverance of the Saints, Theology of Salvation, Total Depravity, TULIP, Unconditional Election

Though Calvinists may claim that Noah was only «perfect in his generations» because of God's irresistible grace upon Noah's life, the text of Genesis 6:8 indicates that «Noah found grace» in the eyes of God, not that God irresistibly gave grace to Noah.