Actually, this is a case where I am genuinely interested about passages that seem to refute my claim.
I grew up in a Lutheran church where there was a very strong emphasis on grace - you could not and are not allowed to add anything to grace. The idea of people making a decision to receive grace or follow Jesus was not well looked upon because it seemed to add something to grace. The teaching was that you were born from above and got the Holy Spirit in infant baptism and that was it, you are saved by grace without doing anything, do not add anything to it. Persons belonging to the revival movements within the church may speak about a ‘return to the grace of baptism’ when they are calling people to turn to Christ - I would call this an euphemism of the message of Jesus ‘repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand’.
When I became seriously interested about the will of God and started to read biblical scriptures, I noted that the case was not as clear as I had heard.
The importance of baptism as a sacrament that saves made it interesting to think about the human input in salvation. In the baptism, there is a human decision to be baptized, although in the case of an infant, this decision is made by the parents.
The teaching of the Lutheran church is that all are not saved, there are persons who will be doomed. What makes this difference? You can believe in predestination to heaven (humans have no part in the decision) but if you do not believe in double predestination, there is a human contribution involved.
The meaning of ‘grace’ in this context seems to be that Jesus made the hard work, payed the price, so you do not have to earn salvation by living a sinless life - grace is a gift, not a salary. However, it is not pushed on you while you sleep, it is an open door with a call to come in through the door, for free. In this, it includes the contribution of the human as an acceptance of the gift offered by God.
Although this seems to be a fairly obvious case, the childhood time teaching about grace without any human contribution, not even acceptance, sometimes give a distant echo in my mind. This makes me sometimes think if I could be wrong and open to the possibility that I have interpreted the teaching of the biblical scriptures in a wrong way. For this reason, I am interested of passages that seem to refute my claim.
By the way, I have a similar kind of attitude towards my other interpretations. I acknowledge that my current interpretations are perhaps not the whole truth and therefore, I am open to correction if someone can show where my interpretations are misunderstandings.