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speratus said:
According to your reference text, repentance unto the knowledge of the truth is a gift of God not a work of man.

Why am I repenting and acknowledging the truth of God? Why am I able to acknowledge God's truth? If repentance is a gift of God, it cannot be a good work. The definition of good work is something that a child of God does in faith. I am kept in repentance by the Holy Spirit (1 Peter 1:5; Phil. 1:6; 1 Thes. 2:13; Titus 3:5) and enlightened by His gifts (2 Cor. 4:6; Rom 15:13; 1 Peter 2:9).
speratus,

Are you saying that the mind, emotions and particularly the will of man is totally absent in either or both repentance and faith; that these elements are simply created and then resident in a person's soul and upon just their presence the individual is justified?

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