Bingo! Yet, the Protestants will tell you that we can repent only because God gives us repentance (as in giving money to someone to spend...those who don't get it can't repent). Thus the Protestant God withholds repentance for some (yet He is not partial!).
In other words, HD, you will tell me that you can repent only if He has already decided to forgive you; now He just wants you to go through the charade. Puppets on a string. Some "children."
Yes, what God gives with one hand, he takes away with the other, according to the "reformed" theology. In the rush to claim God as sovereign, they override HIS perogative to share Himself with mankind. Sad...
Regards
Wrong. Most Protestants will tell you man generate this repentance same as what jo kus stated.
2Co 7:9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.
2Co 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
2Ti 2:25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,
You're catching on. ;O)