“Are we helpless to save ourselves? Yes!”
How are you helpless to save yourself when the power to either accept or reject salvation is up to you?
Helpless means you can’t do it on your own, yet you say you can. You say in order to be saved you alone have to exercise your free will and your faith. God offers salvation but you have the power to either accept or reject it. That is saving yourself. That is saying: “God helps those who help themselves”; “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul”.
“You have yet to offer a single passage that shows faith is something God gives as a gift to man after regeneration by election.”
We have given you the verses but you insist on saving yourself; again I say congratulations.
I guess some people see God's offer as just that, an offer. Calvinists see it as a done deal.