Yes really.
You inserted your own words in place of scripture.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
The condition for being saved is to believe.
Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. Luke 8:12
JLB
No, YOU have it reversed. They ALREADY HAD eternal life: eternal life came first, belief from it. Do you see
the "HAVE everlasting life"? It is in the present tense, not in the future tense. If, as you say, faith was a prerequisite to everlasting life, then the 'everlasting life' would have to be in the future relative to "believes", but it isn't.
Also, the "be saved" is a rendering in the aorist tense, which also means not future. The key to it is that the
devil took the word from their hearts. The only way that doesn't happen if someone is first "given" by God to
know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but that is not given to all, only to some, so not all can know the mysteries of the kingdom, and therefore, can never have true knowledge nor faith.
[Luk 8:10 KJV] 10 And he said,
Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
True belief is a biproduct of, and accompanies, being given eternal life, it doesn't cause it.
Your problem is that you just simply can't bring yourself to recognize/believe in Jesus Christ as Saviour, and being the Saviour, He alone must therefore do the saving (which you do not believe in, and which, is a very odd position for you to find yourself in, given you claim to be a Christian). Instead, you seek to raise yourself above Christ and to make of yourself your own saviour. Really astounding when you stop and think about it, isn't it?
God does it all, man contributes nothing.
These verses confirm that. Doesn't get any clearer. If you can't or you refuse to recognize it, then I don't know what else I can say.
[Act 13:48 KJV] 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord:
and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
(do you see the ordained to eternal life above? That means that because they had received eternal life, from that, their belief came: eternal life first, then belief: their belief was a demonstration of their having received eternal life. Had they not been so ordained, then they would not have been given eternal life and would/could not believe)
[Gal 3:8 KJV] 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.
[Gal 5:22 KJV] 22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith,
[1Pe 1:21 KJV] 21
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
[Gal 2:16 KJV] 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law,
but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
[1Pe 1:3-5 KJV]
3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and
that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
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Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
[Phl 1:6 KJV] 6 Being confident of this very thing,
that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ: