Ezekiel 11:17-21

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel.’ And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.  And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them.  I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them.  And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.  But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.

This passage shows both the conditional and the unconditional nature of biblical salvation.  We have a condition. God says that those who will be saved “walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them.” Likewise God says “those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads.” Yet this conditional salvation, based on a heart of obedience, is far from the end of the story.  Underneath the obedient or disobedient heart there is a determining factor that is far more decisive. For some sinners, God will unconditionally “remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,” a heart that expresses a love for God in what they do.  For others, God will leave to their own detestable things, and they will receive due recompense for what they have done.

There are conditions which must be met in order for one to be saved.  We would be foolish, in light of litanies of biblical passages, to deny conditionality.  However, it is also clear that we are unable, in ourselves, to meet any of the necessary conditions.  The only way any conditions for salvation can be met, is if they are given to us unconditionally by the volition of God, through the work of Christ in the gospel.