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Good Day, to my Lutheran Brothers & Sisters
Back in the old P/R/E I was trying to understand the Lutheran view of Grace being resistible as it refered to the elect of God. I do believe that Lutherans will up hold the Election of some, and not of others.
The question I have is if grace is resistible by the elect. How are the elect brought in to an understanding of the "word of life". Given Luther's view of the will of man " bound in sin" and his inabilty to seek God as well as that man's desire to not seek God in is natural state.
Would this be fair defintion of:
Irresistible Grace - Indicates that because the grace of God in electing some to salvation is sovereign, it is not possible that the elect will effectively resist his grace. Nevertheless, for reasons known only to Himself, God may sometimes allow this work of grace seemingly to be delayed.
Peace to u,
Bill
Back in the old P/R/E I was trying to understand the Lutheran view of Grace being resistible as it refered to the elect of God. I do believe that Lutherans will up hold the Election of some, and not of others.
All things whatever arise from, and depend on, the divine appointment; whereby it was foreordained who should receive the word of life, and who should disbelieve it; who should be delivered from their sins, and who should be hardened in them; and who should be justified and who should be condemned.
- Martin Luther
Therefore the mercy is past finding out by which He has mercy on whom He will, no merits of his own preceding; and the truth is unsearchable by which He hardeneth whom He will, even although his merits may have preceded, but merits for the most part common to him with the man on whom He has mercy. As of two twins, of which one is taken and the other left, the end is unequal, while the deserts are common, yet in these the one is in such wise delivered by God's great goodness, that the other is condemned by no injustice of God's. For is there unrighteousness with God? Away with the thought- Augustine
The question I have is if grace is resistible by the elect. How are the elect brought in to an understanding of the "word of life". Given Luther's view of the will of man " bound in sin" and his inabilty to seek God as well as that man's desire to not seek God in is natural state.
Would this be fair defintion of:
Irresistible Grace - Indicates that because the grace of God in electing some to salvation is sovereign, it is not possible that the elect will effectively resist his grace. Nevertheless, for reasons known only to Himself, God may sometimes allow this work of grace seemingly to be delayed.
Peace to u,
Bill