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People can resist grace given by God
- Note: The opposing side to this argument is called irresistible grace or efficacious grace.
Supporting arguments
The Bible makes it clear that people can and do resist God's grace. [1]
Opposing arguments
People naturally reject God. It is only through his will that people can be forced to accept his grace and become faithful. No one accepts this grace through their own will, and therefore. no one can reject it once it is given. [2]
- Related argument: All people are able to achieve salvation because of the sacrifice of Jesus.
All people are in thrall to their sinful natures, and can only overcome this inner depravity through God's will. God chooses who will be able to overcome their sin and provides them with salvation. No one can resists God's plan, for them to either remain enslaved to sin or to rise above it. [3]
- Related argument: All people are able to achieve salvation because of the sacrifice of Jesus.
- Related argument: People are enslaved to sin and cannot be saved from it by their own will.
Ephesians 2:5 says "even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ", which indicates that the moment when people become saved is when they are "dead in trespasses" (i.e. spiritually dead to a sinful nature that only God can overcome). [4]
Notes
| Wiki articles by viewpoint | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Neutral wikis | Wikipedia: Irresistible grace Citizendium (Academic): None Debatepedia (Debates): None |
Viewpoints | Wikinfo (Sympathetic): None WhyItIsTerrible (Critical): None |
| Philosophies and topics | Atheism Wiki (Atheist): None FreeThoughtPedia (FreeThought): None Objectivism Wiki (Objectivist): None RationalWiki (Skeptic): None WikiSynergy (Conspiracy theories, inclusive): None EvoWiki (Evolutionary science): None LGBT Project (LGBT): None Religion Wiki (Religious): None |
Politics | Mises.org (Austro-libertarian): None Conservapedia (US right-wing, Christian conservative): None Ameriwiki (US right-wing, Christian conservative): None dKosopedia (US left-wing): None LeftSpace (US left-wing): None Liberapedia (US left-wing): None Metapedia (Neo-Nazi): None |
| Christian wikis | IronChariots (Biblical, counter-apologetics): None Christianity Knowledge Base (Christian): None WikiChristian (Christian): None A Storehouse of Knowledge (Christian): None Creation Wiki (Creationist): None Theopedia (Evangelical Protestant): Irresistible grace OrthodoxWiki (Orthodox Christian): None Catholic Wiki (Roman Catholic): None Theologia (Christian, ecumenical): None |
Other religious wikis | WikiIslam (anti-Islamic): None Bahaikipedia (Bahá’í): None Dhamma (Buddhist, Theravada): None Hindupedia (Hindu): None Judaism Wiki (Jewish): None Messianic (Messianic Jewish): None MuslimWiki (Muslim): None Wikipagan (Neopagan): None Scientology (Scientology, independent): None SikhiWiki (Sikh): None |
