sincerly
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The very act of accepting God's grace and believing in Jesus is an example of cooperating with God in our salvation. Does it pay the penalty of death? No. But will we obtain salvation even if we refuse it? No, we have to accept the salvation that Christ offered us and cooperate with Him in our salvation.
Hi Shiranui, Pardon me for not getting to your post as quickly as I should. At times posts get buried before they are read or even seen.
Fortunately, I do have a life away from the computer.
Technically, Jesus paid the price for mankind's salvation "before the foundation of the world". As Eph.2:8 says, it is a "gift". the accepting of it is a choice. Nothing that mankind can even claim to have a redeeming act to possess.
The cooperation is in the Submission to HIS WILL. That fact bars one from presumptuously believing that one adds to HIS Saving Grace. Mankind strayed from the Will of GOD initially by choice.
The Confession of sins and repentance are admissions of ones guilt, but it doesn't clean the record. That is ALL done by the Sacrifice of Jesus upon the Cross.