This is more Calvinistic nonsense. Who else but sinners must repent? That is not a "work" as you claim, but a response to the Gospel.
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:38)
Who do you think did the repenting here in order to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? Since good works are excluded, Peter would not have said what he did unless it was God who told him to say exactly what he said.
Unless each and every Calvinist has first repented and then believed, or believed and then repented, he or she cannot be saved. One must be converted before receiving the Holy Ghost.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; (Acts 3:19)
As to any talk of "credit" that is merely a straw man argument.
Slow down chief, goodness gracious, you've already labeled me "Calvinist", and I'm not. I've never read Calvin, never endorse him or invoke his name or teachings at all. You're just mad at everyone and are lashing out at me. What about 2 Tim 2:24-15-
24 And the Lord's servant[e] must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness.
God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
That's pretty clear too. You can keep writing me off as "Calvin nonsense" all you want, but I'm not quoting or concerned with Calvin at all, why I believe this way is because of how He saved me. To be clear I do believe many times there is a "choice" made when God saves us. So understand I'm not denying people who were saved this way, at all. My point here is who gets the glory for that choice. I understand the bible to say we are born dead in our sins. We are born spiritually dead, cut of from our Creator.
Us born of Adam in the flesh. Think about this, in this state left only to our own devices, we could never ever even conceive of what the problem even was, much less work out the solution. Nope, we are born broken, incomplete, and from the very beginning we try to fill this spiritual hole with the things of the flesh, and don't know that this will only lead to death.
Outside of direct revelation from our Creator we could never even know what the problem was, and He provides a way to put us back together, to make us whole as we were created to be. Right. If this is true then on logic alone it is not possible for us to be drawn to the Father without His word drawing us. I hate this line of thinking makes you throw a wall up between us the way you do, calling me "this" and "that" when I'm not. I believe these things and have come to these conclusions by His guidance, by His Spirit. I don't say that as a "therefore I'm right", but
I have to take into consideration my own experiences too. When I was saved I didn't make a choice the way most think. When God granted mer repentance I just saw "my way" for what it was in truth and I quit. I woke up the next day all new, but God revealed it throughout the day. I didn't realize I'd been born again until lunch the next day. So in my testimony I did not call on Jesus or God, in fact I didn't think of them at all in that moment, I had a false conversion, making the very choice we're discussing BTW and was NOT saved at all. I went up front and repeated the prayer, they was baptized at the beach and declared "saved" by the preacher I trusted, yet was not saved. So when this time came and I hit my knees I already thought I had done that "Jesus thing" and it didn't help 1 bit. So when I hit my knees, if I'd ever believed in God I didn't then. So throw all the scripture you want at me, and know I'm not denying what you're saying at all, but that was not how I was saved, and I testify that God choose me,
(as a matter of simple fact, not a boast) and I had nothing to do with my salvation at all. It was ALL God 100%
Now please get out of CC debate mode and answer my first question you never even touched. You made the choice, your saved. Who gets the glory and credit for that choice?