The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Proper terminology in describing resisting

A friend is trying to make a point that we cannot resist God's Grace in regeneration, but after conversion (sanctification), we can resist His grace.

I see it in terms of disobeying God and His Lordship, instead of resisting Grace, but it that just semantics.

How to put this in its rightly terminology as it seems to me that resisting grace is not properly used in describing disobedience during our sanctification?

I agree with you John, i.e. God's "grace" cannot be thwarted nor diminished. All that God has purposed will infallibly come to pass, including His dispensation of grace. It's not as if the Holy Spirit does His best to try and get us to live righteously, but He can't overcome our sinful inclinations. God has ordained and allows us to have our own way so that we might realize just how much sin remains in our soul and how much we are dependent upon Him for strength to overcome it. We are totally dependent upon Him for all things (Jh 15:5; Phil 4:13).