Acts 7:51 "You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit!
Irresistible grace appears to be resistable.
To someone who claims at one point to have held to calvinism...this posted error refutes that idea very quickly....You and DHK as P4T has posted do not understand the doctrine being discussed..
In this passage we have this;
You always resist the Holy Spirit!
You are just like your fathers
The fact that reprobates resist the Holy Spirit
...always...then go on to hell...has nothing to do with the irresistable....efficacious grace of God.
It is spoken of as irresistable...in that the elect do not ultimately resist it,they are made willing by the Spirit of God.
It is spoken of as efficacious because it always accomplishes God's purpose in saving His elect.
Reprobates like those in Acts 7:51 always resist the Holy Spirit.....
but reprobates are never the object of the irresistable call. NEVER.
Enemies of grace,and those who have been mis-lead or because of pride remain uninformed of the clear teaching of the grace of God in each aspect of the means of grace.....
All the Father gives to me shall come to me.......jn6:37a.........no more, no less...they come by the effectual drawing of the Spirit of God
DHK...you are in the same sinking ship as webdog;
And after reading your post one have to come to the conclusion that Stephen did not know what he was talking about.
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. (Acts 7:51)
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Steven knew exactly what he was talking about...and it was not irresistable grace ...it was reprobation.....you and webdog miss completely what the term implies.....it is not ultimately resisted......read any calvinist....read the posted link if you want to actually learn about it....
If you just want to object, to object....just join in with Van.
But not one of these objections actually addresses the doctrine taught...as usual.....because you cannot refute the plain teaching of the verses that give the doctrine of the Historic church as presented in all the confessions;
Like here in the 1689;
Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling
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Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, he is pleased in his appointed, and accepted time,
effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;
enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God; taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them a heart of flesh; renewing their wills, and by his almighty power determining them to that which is good,
and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ; yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace. ( Romans 8:30; Romans 11:7; Ephesians 1:10, 11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 14; Ephesians 2:1-6; Acts 26:18; Ephesians 1:17, 18; Ezekiel 36:26; Deuteronomy 30:6; Ezekiel 36:27; Ephesians 1:19; Psalm 110:3; Song of Solomon 1:4 )
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This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, nor from any power or agency in the creature, being wholly passive therein, being dead in sins and trespasses,
until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit; he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it, and that by no less power than that which raised up Christ from the dead.
( 2 Timothy 1:9; Ephesians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 2:5; John 5:25; Ephesians 1:19, 20 )
3._____ Elect infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit; who worketh when, and where, and how he pleases; so also are all elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.
( John 3:3, 5, 6; John 3:8 )
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Others not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit,
yet not being effectually drawn by the Father, they neither will nor can truly come to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: much less can men that receive not the Christian religion be saved; be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature and the law of that religion they do profess.
( Matthew 22:14; Matthew 13:20, 21; Hebrews 6:4, 5; John 6:44, 45, 65; 1 John 2:24, 25; Acts 4:12; John 4:22; John 17:3 )
