Of course, God commands all men every to repent and believe in Christ.We are both acknowledging Grace, Faith and Works are involved.
And, we are both recognizing ALL that we are, know and feel, comes from Jehovah/YHVH God.
It SEEMS that the disconnect between us is, how MUCH responsibility the believer has.
God has created the universe, including you and me.
God has provided His spirit: His thinking, wisdom, values, plan of salvation and the power produced by His mind.
God has provided His "holy servant" Jesus, who gave his life for the sins of humanity, and God is willing to count that one man's death, as adequate payment for BILLIONS of sinners, and BILLIONS of sins ..... IF (and only IF).. the sinner believes and obeys Him .... and that reality is horrible math, but it is AMAZING GRACE!!
No human being, Jesus included, can take credit for ANY of God's plan. It is God's creation, God's plan of salvation, God's wisdom, God's righteousness, God's justice, etc.
That being said, it is still OUR responsibility to seek Him, and obey Him. God will cover for what we CANNOT do, but we STILL have to DO! We have to choose. We have to believe. We have to obey, and when we fail to obey, we have to repent and pray for forgiveness;
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
But the only ones that do are those He has foreknown as His own people.
And the reason they believe is The Holy Spirit teaches them, because they are regenerated and the evil old heart has been replaced. You can not enter the kingdom of God without first being regenerated, born again, then you will respond to the Holy Spirit because you are a spiritually alive person no longer spiritually dead. Plenty of Jews in Christ's time resisted the gospel of Christ and the Holy Spirit and all them that resist Him persisting in unbelief God will destroy.
John 1, all those that did receive Him did so because they were born of God. The emphasis should be understood that they were not born of the will of the flesh, or the will of the man, but of God they were born. God did that for us while we were still following the prince of the power of the air, Satan, because of the great love He had for us, he made us alive who were dead. It was not our will to be born of God, it was His will that we be born of God even while following the devil, such great magnificent love does He have for those He foreknew he did also predestine to be conformed to the image of His Son.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
1 John 5 English Standard Version (ESV)
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
So then everyone who believes does so because they have been born of God, everyone who believes is born of God. And all those who are born of God overcome the world by their faith, because God has sanctified them by faith in Christ.
And Christ says of those who come to Him, that they come because of God's power at work within them.
The deeds done in God, so God is the originator. HE is after all, the author and finisher of our faith...
Christ puts the emphasis on God. That their deeds done in the light of God's truths have been accomplished in the power of God, God at work in them..
John 3
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
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