Do Calvinists believe that no one can resist God's "irresistible" grace?
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That means that everyone going to Hell could have been made to go to Heaven by God's irresistible grace.
That no one goes to hell because of their choices, but God's choice.
Because irresistible grace could have caused them to have a change of heart, but God chose not to do that.
One of the main reasons Calvinism should be avoided.
Augustine of Hippo held a theory that preserved MFW (although not divine love and justness),
but Calvin did not notice it when he incorporated Augustine's doctrine into his own theology.
Highly recommend Dr. Leighton Flowers and his youtube chanmel sotrielogy101, he dismantle Calvinism and in my opinion single handedly destroyed it.
Calvinism is dead. Thank God
Well, we can hope TULIP is dead, but we hope tulipists on CC will repent of that heresy.
The Lord knows I have done my best to share about MFW and God's love/justness.
LET ME ASK A QUESTION?
AFTER THE FALL IN THE GARDEN WHAT PERCENTAGE OF MANKIND WOULD BE GUILTY OF SIN DESERVING DEATH (CONDEMNATION)?
IS IT FAIR OF GOD TO CHARGE ALL MANKIND AFTER ADAM GUILTY OF HIS SIN?
THE BATTLE RAGES TIL THE LION ROARS!
Clarence
AFTER THE FALL IN THE GARDEN WHAT PERCENTAGE OF MANKIND WOULD BE GUILTY OF SIN DESERVING DEATH (CONDEMNATION)?
IS IT FAIR OF GOD TO CHARGE ALL MANKIND AFTER ADAM GUILTY OF HIS SIN?
THE BATTLE RAGES TIL THE LION ROARS!
Clarence
That was two questions:
1. 100% until/unless sinners repent and seek God's salvation, which could be 100% (2Thes. 2:10, 1Tim. 2:3-4).
2. No (Ezek. 18:20, Rom. 2:5-16).
Mankind is not guilty of Adam & Eve's sin. Our human natures were polluted by their sin, but no guilt is attached.
And Calvin was a terrible person, so as they say, "The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree".
Everyone who knows what TULIP means should know what MFW means.
The TULIP dogma (tulipism) may be described as follows:
T – total depravity, meaning souls are unable to exercise sufficient MFW to seek salvation (contradicting Matt. 7:7, etc.).
U – unconditional election, meaning that souls need not satisfy a divine requirement such as faith or repentance, but God chooses to save some while damning the rest to hell (contradicting Eph. 2:8-9, etc.).
L – limited atonement, meaning that Christ died to pay the penalty of sin only for elect souls (contra Rom. 3:21-5:1, etc.).
I – irresistible grace, meaning that elect souls cannot resist or refuse God’s will for them to be saved (contra Matt. 23:37, etc.).
P – perseverance of the saints, meaning that the elect cannot repudiate their salvation and commit apostasy, because God perseveres in keeping them saved (contra Heb. 6:4-6, etc.).
The viewpoint opposed to TULIP may be termed Moral Free Will (MFW) and described as follows:
M – God’s requirement for salvation (GRFS) is a Moral condition called faith, which is manifested as seeking God’s righteousness or salvation, which in turn presumes sufficient human volition even for sinners to make them morally accountable.
F – God enables all morally accountable souls sufficient Freedom to satisfy GRFS—or not, because His grace is not irresistible, which means sinners are accountable and justly condemned when they do not repent and accept Christ’s atonement for their sins
W – Faith is almost synonymous with Will, but volition focuses on faith as cooperation with God (or not), and cooperating with God by accepting His grace is NOT meritorious or working to earn heaven or salvation by obeying moral laws.
Interesting question because Stephen said under the power of the Holy Spirit:
Acts 7:51-53
51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 ;who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”
They resisted the Holy Spirit? Who is God? how? Stephen testified to those who stoned him of Abraham Moses and the works of GOD down through the generation from the word of GOD. They resisted the Holy Spirit.
My point is this, all mankind are spiritually dead, dead men can't act, thus an outside force must resurrect them. that is the irresistible GRACE OF GODS SOVEREIGN ELECTION...im not a calvinist, but I do believe in election as the bible clearly teaches......