To be saved by faith requires that it is fully from God. In a sense, even the initiative or desire to seek God must have come from God. This seems to be the essence of the Bible, since even the slightest idea that some effort was from us would invalidate the fullness of Jesus' sacrifice. The efforts only come after the salvation. In a way that's the only way it would make sense if we really believe that we are "dead in our trespasses", because how can the dead even make an effort?
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