tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1420093134571892773.post1660250579304643802..comments2018-10-14T23:23:56.634-07:00Comments on The Bayou Thebaid: RE Hopko on PredestinationJ. B. Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15616638312087360239noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1420093134571892773.post-4198348930902237312015-03-26T03:46:06.628-07:002015-03-26T03:46:06.628-07:00Irresistible grace might be the worst mnemonic dev...Irresistible grace might be the worst mnemonic device in TULIP. It connotes that we can never ever resist any call of God, which is silly.<br /><br />Effectual calling, on the other hand, means that when God decides to save us he is successful. It means the ultimate or final calling of God works.<br /><br />Per freedom: we have freedom of will with a limitation of choice. The object of our choosing is the inducement to volition and the motive is the subjective cause. Motives arise from subjective reflections. The soul is self-determining. This is not Pelagianism, though. We are not saying the faculty of will is self-determining. The soul has its own regulative law of action. This regulative law is its dispositions. This fact coexists with the fact of consciousness.J. B. Aitkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616638312087360239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1420093134571892773.post-73682542425482855352015-03-25T18:56:17.139-07:002015-03-25T18:56:17.139-07:00In what sense is grace resistible? Or what kind of...In what sense is grace resistible? Or what kind of grace is resistible? Not arguing, I just want to understand more accurately what you're saying.<br /><br />Also, what kind of freedom do you think we have? Obviously we don't have any autonomous freedom, properly understood. Neither, and I think we agree, do we have this really, really weak sense of freedom that is probably the dominant reformed view today. <br /><br />I've been thinking through this a lot lately, but I'm having a difficult time pinning down exactly what I think on the subject. So your input would be appreciate. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160337047596548755noreply@blogger.com