I have internet access today <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/ClapHands.gif" alt="" /> so thought I'd drop by.

The idea of prevenient grace is quite silly really. After all if everyone had their hearts equally prepared by the Spirit, why on earth doesn't anyone receive the truth??? (I frankly don't know anyone who is EAGER to go to hell!?!) And why would some be willing to leave their sins and some not if all were equally prepared? Prevenient grace assumes that some people are better than others and so only they are saved....as they're the only ones willing to receive the truth.

BTW Pilgrim, I don't quite agree with you that humbled-to-the-dust people accept sovereign grace- there are people out there (not meaning anyone here) that accept these truths intellectually and therefore quite easily. I would wonder at anyone who accepts the sovereignty of God *easily* as it is a hard doctrine for depraved people to accept, because it requires being humbled to the dust!