No, because true regeneration by the Holy Spirit cannot be resisted. If it could, there would be no such thing as "irresistible grace" and Arminius would be correct that men whom God calls to Him can deny Him what He wants.
But we know that if God has numbered someone to be one of the elect, that person will succumb to the persuasion of God at a time of God's choosing. It could not be otherwise, if God is sovereign.
IMO "speaking against the Holy Spirit" is to deny the Holy Spirit exists in others and in the world around us. Since it is the Holy Spirit who enlivens Scripture and makes it knowable then any proclamation of the Scriptures and God's truth is by the Holy Spirit, which we both know many people "resist" and for which they are rightly condemned.
“But we know that if God has numbered someone to be one of the elect, that person will succumb to the persuasion of God at a time of God’s choosing. It could not be otherwise, if God is sovereign.”
Dr E, you are the one denying the sovereignty of God. You presume to tell God what His will is...and that it is to require men to obey.
But what if God doesn’t WANT compelled obedience?
Then in His sovereign will, He would give us a choice.
The question rests, not on the sovereignty of God, but on what God’s desire is, as revealed by scripture.
Meant to ping you to 2,553.