Through Jesus ALL our sins are taken away and it is God that does the work within us to change us. We’ve done nothing to deserve God’s love and grace - nor is there anything we can do on our part to merit the same.
An interesting statement, Godzilla. So are you saying that some are predestined to be saved, some predestined to be damned, and there is nothing anyone can do about one’s eternal fate?
No, don't even try to go down that road norm. My statements are straight from the Bible. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Once we are saved by faith in Christ, through grace and not of any works to merit that grace. NOTHING in that statement has anything to do with predestination nor the inability of one to affect their eternal fate. Jesus give us the choice - receive Him or reject him - that is the only thing one can do about one's eternal fate.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isaiah 29:16
Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?