Talk:To become a Christian you must believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord

This would imply a mere human does all the work. This statement brings up the question of predestination and freewill.

Predestination implies if you are coming to the point of wanting to believe in your heart that means God has done the work of providing your corrupt soul with the ability to believe and worship him.

Whereas freewill implies God is waiting for you to accept but since we are corrupt by the very nature of sin we cannot accept. This would imply we are holy enough to understand God's love and power without actually being saved yet by him.

It is a very interesting debate and at one point I would promote the freewill concept, but as I starting reading more in the bible I am swaying toward predestination. More of the bible talks about God doing all the work and not man which leads to the predestination theology.