One does not repent of individual sins for salvation
"Ye must be born again" is based upon a singular act of faith in Christ Jesus for eternal life upon which God gives the gift of eternal life.
Hebrews 6:4,5,6
“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,”
“And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,”
“If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.”
You go to Jesus on His terms
One can stop being faithful but God is also able to chastise and deal with that person.
So you not think that God was not smart enough to create a fool proof plan of salvation, eternally secure that could triumph against the flesh, Satan and the world?
Once saved, always saved. Jesus has not and will not lose a single one that the Father has trusted in his care. I read that somewhere in the bible.
“While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”
Those that are born-again are led to repentance
God's grace was sufficient for him.
It's sufficient for me too and those others that are saved by the shed blood of Jesus dying on the cross for sins, theirs and mine.
Any works performed, by the grace of God are a manifestation of one's standing before the Lord. Says in James that faith without works is a dead faith. even though the works themselves do not save. We are called to serve the Lord for that is our purpose.
Now I would remind you brothers, of the Gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:1–2)
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