Featured Semi-Pelagianism and Leighton Flowers

This is a description of faith not a definition of faith there is a difference.
Faith definitionally is a choice to trust, a personal choice to trust something it doesn't mean unseen like blind faith.

Evangelical, justifying, or saving faith, is the assent of the mind to the truth of divine revelation, on the authority of God's testimony, accompanied with a cordial assent of the will or approbation of the heart; an entire confidence or trust in God's character and declarations, and in the character and doctrines of Christ, with an unreserved surrender of the will to his guidance, and dependence on his merits for salvation. In other words, that firm belief of God's testimony, and of the truth of the gospel, which influences the will, and leads to an entire reliance on Christ for salvation.

Salvation is the gift of God conditioned upon ones faith.

Antecedents and Faith (Eph_2:8-9)
“Grace is God's part, faith ours.” He adds that since in the original the demonstrative “this” (and this not of yourselves) is neuter and does not correspond with the gender of the word “faith,” which is feminine, it does not refer to the latter “but to the act of being saved by grace conditioned on faith on our part.”
“In Eph_2:8 … there is no reference to διὰ πίστεως [through faith] in τοῦτο [this], but rather to the idea of salvation in the clause before.”
A. T. Robertson {RWP} Baker's cmtx

The problem with that exegesis of the verse
While a pronoun's case is determined by its function in the sentence, the gender and number are determined by its antecedent. Therefore, "that" G5124 a neuter pronoun cannot be referring back to "faith" G4102 a feminine noun. But "grace" G5485 also is feminine, so it cannot be the antecedent of [that G5124]. So what is?
If you look backwards for an antecedent, you will look in vain. There are neuter nouns, but they make no sense as an antecedent.
The answer is to know a little Greek!
When Greek wants to refer back to a general thought, perhaps a phrase, the pronoun can be in the neuter. This is "not of yourselves" does not refer specifically to [πίστεως faith G4102] but rather to the entire salvific process, of which faith obviously is a part.
["For by grace you have been saved "] {how} through faith. Salvation is a gift that we receive from God because of our faith.
Bill Mounce
Antecedents and Faith (Eph 2:8-9)

That is, salvation does not proceed from yourselves. The word rendered “that” - τοῦτο touto - is in the neuter gender, and the word “faith” - πίστις pistis - is in the feminine. The word “that,” therefore, does not refer particularly to faith, as being the gift of God, but to “the salvation by grace” of which he had been speaking. Barnes

Yes we are in disagreement because you disagree with the biblical text. Faith is not the gift of God, salvation is.

 

" not of works, lest any man should boast." ( Ephesians 2:9 ).

Not according to Him, it isn't.

You really don't understand what it is that you're teaching, do you? How that, by making faith the "condition" upon which we gain God's favor, it turns His unmerited gift into a man-made work, which ( supposedly ) God then meritoriously rewards a person who uses the faith ( of Christ, Galatians 2:20 ), to gain salvation from His wrath and eternal life with His Son.

I'm sorry, Silverhair, I've tried many times to get through to you with the Scriptures, but it seems that you just aren't hearing them.

 

Faith is not a work

Scripture clearly teaches that faith and works are polar opposites.

John 6:29 "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent."

Romans 3:22 “”...even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe...”

Romans 3:27-28 Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

Romans 4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

Romans 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

Galatians 2:16 "knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

Galatians 3:22 But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.


Faith is not a work but it is the condition that God requires to be met.

Romans 1:16 “the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes,”

Ephesians 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

Romans 3:26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

These verses should clear up any confusion you may have. I presented the biblical truth for you, if you choose to ignore it that is on your head. I have shown you the truth but I cannot make you believe it.

 

Please tell me this Dave since you have studied Flowers, “Is his beliefs primarily a doctrine of a works based faith or a Grace based faith?”

 

So ask him yourself… he used to be very approachable. Better to get it from the horses mouth than to speculate.