Well-maybe that is easy to you. But I would rather like to stick to what I see the word says, And this is not adequate. This is just an opinion. I do not wish to base my eternal life based on opinions.
To me the Bible saysdthere is a process. Things Ike redemption, Justification, Regeneration, Salvation. All all these things fit together to make a person a child of God.
Just saying God elected us and thats it does nto explain the process.
Yep. But it is not Gods repentance, it is yours. You must repent, or you will remain in your sin.
He is not saying it's Gods repentance,
2 Tim 2:24-25
24 And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing. 25 He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that
God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
He grants us our repentance from what I read here as well,
Acts 5:31
"He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to
grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Acts 11:18
When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, "Well then, God has
granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life."
Romans 2:4
Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
I think this one clearly implies it was the kindness of God that leads to repentance.
I agree with so much of what you're saying, but on this matter I truly believe that my repentance was 100% a gift of God to me.
Again I agree with so much of what you are saying, I really think the difference is more a matter of perspective than our "beliefs", but in this matter of repentance I do feel it is pretty clear God is the source of that, without Him we couldn't "get there". However I also believe we live in time/space and from our perspective it seems we choose, or exercise some part in coming to Him, but I think it's also clear that we do NOTHING in regard to receiving salvation at all, including repentance. That's how I see it anyway, but I believe God is absolutely sovereign over EVERYTHING, which I'm sure we all will agree with, but it helps to look up the definition of sovereign. Do you truly believe God is sovereign over EVERYTHING, even what you can't understand?