godrulz37

Total depravity is not total inability. God’s love is not partial, limited. The grounds for salvation (reason by which we are saved) are grace and the person and work of Christ (objective). The conditions of salvation/perseverance (not without which) include repentant faith and continuance in the faith. The objective provision must be subjectively appropriated. His death is intended for all and sufficient, but only efficacious for those who freely respond to His non-coercive/non-causative conviction/convincing (draws, woos, influences, not causes). Receiving a free gift is not a work, but a response to the work of God (cease resisting His grace). Salvation is more a reciprocal love relationship than a mechanistic change foisted arbitrarily on some, but not others.