Is grace resistable and if so is that a heretical opinion? For Arminius the issue was not whether salvation is all off grace, it is, but is grace resistable? Calvinists argue that if grace were resistable salvation is not all of grace but there is some "credit" to the person making that step of faith. Arminians do not see that this makes any sense. "A gift that can be rejected is still a gift if freely received. A gift freely received is no less a gift than one received under compulsion." (Olson, River E, 2006, Aminian Theology, p.162.)
An example springs to mind that illustrates this. In Acts 12v6ff Peter is freed from jail by God. All is the work of God but Peter still had to get dressed and follow the angel. I have never heard anyone say what a great escape artist Peter was! All glory, rightly, is given to God.
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