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Originally Posted by Praxeas
If you are defining works as something you can do on your own, then doesn't that make faith or believing in Him a work? And also Repentance?
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There's a rub. "Evangelicals" often follow Calvin's lead and cite the doctrine of Irresistible Grace.
The idea is that God extends grace to "the elect" and we (and hopefully you!) are simply powerless to resist, even in our sinful state; such is the power of God's grace.
Thus, even faith and believing become something that God has done on our behalf. Salvation then, is "All of Grace" as Spurgeon preached, and not of ourselves (
Ephesians 2:8-10).
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