No, I agree with that. Where do you see a conflict? We have free will to choose good or evil, but of course we wouldn't have either life or free will if God had not given it to us.
Perhaps I missed something, but your answer earlier:
By that definition, I will stipulate that Noah had his own righteousness that was not from the grace of God. I do not believe that God's favor for Noah was unmerited.
Seemed to be saying that Noah had merit that was not a gift from God. You know I do not consider us passive vessels, and that we and God work together. But this struck me as strange.
Even if we grow our talents and gain merit by this, the seed, the original talent was still from God.
SD