the key point is that you had to believe in to recieve your salvation so by believing which was done by you in that regard yes you had something to do with your salvation everything else was done for you all that was needed from you was to believe and thus accept your salvation the gift that is that is salvation by which was done for you but you did have to make the active choice to believe that is my point
You are correct Blain.
To be clear "saving faith" is not gifted by God.
There are places where faith is strengthened in scripture but this is not "saving faith" but the faith of the believer and is in conjunction with using the gifts that come with salvation.
Saving faith is not birthed in the person my God,
the new life is birthed in the person after the person exercises faith/belief in the work Christ Jesus completed for each individual person.
One has to hear the Gospel, and the Gospel does NOT require
special additional inward spiritual gnosis to be understood, be persuaded and acted upon.
His completed work is the gift received by faith.
And yes, we do receive it which is what makes it a gift.
This is what scripture plainly teaches.
In Ephesians 2:9 Faith is not part of the gift, it is through faith.
That means is faith/belief is the
condition that God sets and the structure in Greek supports this interpretation.
As well nowhere does regeneration, quickening etc., precede faith in scripture.
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