See I hapen to thing the two answers are connected:>)
OK, then--I'll answer, then expect your answer.
I realize the error of my ways, I am sincerely sorry that I have done wrong--not just got caught, but that I have committed the sin. I beg forgiveness from God and accept that He will be ruler over my life.
How does an infant perform these steps?
Count the number of I's in that! Did God have any part of it at all? How did you come to see yourself as a sinner?
Act 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Act 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Rom 2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Speaking of Essau
Hbr 12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Would you agree that it is Gods grace that leads us to repentance?