Does God enable us to believe?

[Dave Slayer]

Does God enable us to believe? And how? Please provide scripture to go with your response.

Thanks and God Bless!

 

[mutzrein]

Does God enable us to believe? And how?

Yes! absolutely. By giving us life. Can a child NOT believe in his father?

 

[Dave Slayer]

Does God enable us to believe? And how?

Yes! absolutely. By giving us life. Can a child NOT believe in his father?

Can you prove that Biblically?

 

[Cornelius]

Php 2:13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

 

[Cornelius]

Mar 9:24 Straightway the father of the child cried out, and said, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

 

[mutzrein]

[quote="Dave Slayer":1ajz4ald]Does God enable us to believe? And how?

Yes! absolutely. By giving us life. Can a child NOT believe in his father?

Can you prove that Biblically?[/quote:1ajz4ald]

That's a cunning one - changing the OP after the original has been answered!

 

[Adullam]

Yes, in 2 different ways...both directly and indirectly. God will directly inspire us by a gift of faith, or else He will manoeuvre us and situations that will cause us to see...that is, if we're looking. ;)

Notice that Cornelius has posted examples of both types of faith....God's working through us and our own being inspired by Him. God's hand reaches down to us and our hand reaches up to Him. :yes

Php 2:13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Mar 9:24 Straightway the father of the child cried out, and said, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

 

[Dave Slayer]

That's a cunning one - changing the OP after the original has been answered!

Yes I did. Now please answer my question rather than find ways to dodge it. :yes

 

[mutzrein]

That's a cunning one - changing the OP after the original has been answered!

Yes I did. Now please answer my question rather than find ways to dodge it. :yes

Dodge it? Who? Me? John 1:12-13 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of Godâ€â€children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

This scripture tells us those who are born of God (ie given life), are born, not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. Now, if this is so then the belief that is spoken of in the previous verse cannot be a human decision, but something that is the enablement of the Spirit that now dwells within.

 

[GodspromisesRyes]

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:

Rom 12:3 ¶ For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Rom 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
Rom 12:5 So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;

Faith is a gift of God! given to us in measure as God gives so that we have access into His gift of grace by measure according to the faith we have recieved.