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Prevenient grace (or
preceding grace or
enabling grace) is a
Christian theological concept that
refers to the
grace of God in a person's life
which precedes...
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their fallen nature and,
apart from the
efficacious (irresistible) or
prevenient (enabling)
grace of God, is
completely unable to
choose by themselves...
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people apart from grace." But God
reaches out with "first grace" or "
prevenient grace". The
Calvinist doctrine known as
irresistible grace states that...
- gospel,
bringing them to
faith in Christ. It is to be
distinguished from
prevenient grace,
particularly ****ociated with Arminianism,
which teaches that the...
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prevenient grace,
which involves a
monergistic act of God,
followed by "subsequent" act
involving a
synergistic work. Thus, for Arminians,
prevenient...
- born with
original sin, can turn to God as a
result of
prevenient grace and do good; this
prevenient grace convicts humans of the
necessity of the new birth...
- will
being spiritually enabled by the
prevenient grace of God. This
article ****erts that once God's
prevenient grace has
enabled a man to believe, man...
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schools of thought.
Central Arminian beliefs are that God's
preparing (
prevenient)
grace for
regeneration is universal, and that God's
justifying grace...
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conditional election and
prevenient grace in
opposition to the main
points of Calvinism. In
Christian theology, he
stresses that the
prevenient grace, operates...
- and not at all by merit, but man,
enabled by what is
referred to as "
prevenient grace", is
enabled by the Holy
Spirit to
understand the
Gospel and respond...
