2 Timothy 2:24-26 “And the Lord's servant must not
be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, table
to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with
gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the
truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the
devil, after being captured by him to do his will.”
“God may perhaps grant them repentance” means that
repentance is a gift from God, therefore, is not faith in Christ a gift from
God that we cannot attain by our works but from God, who chooses who shall be
given the gift and who will be snared by the devil?
James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no
variation or shadow due to change.”
If so, is faith a gift too? If not, is it a
work that can be done to receive salvation from God after he has given us a
spirit of repentance, making salvation attainable through works?
If faith is not something we ourselves do, an
action, then it must be gift from the Father, but then, that would make both
repentance and faith gifts from God making salvation solely from Him, without
us having the choice to ‘do it’ or not, in other words, we do not choose
salvation but God chooses it for us.
2 Peter 1:3 “His divine power has granted to
us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him
who called us to his own glory and excellence,”
Titus 3:5 “He saved us, not because of works
done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of
regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,”
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