1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
John 1:14
Jesus is Full of Grace and Truth
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 4:24
God is Spirit
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
John 6:44
God Draws Us to Him
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
John 6:65
Jesus Says We Are Enabled by God to be Drawn to Jesus
65 He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.
Mark 4:14-20
The Evil One Tempts Us
14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
Mark 1:9-11
Jesus is the Son of God
9 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
Ephesians 2:8-9
Saved by God's Grace
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
Acts 4:12
Salvation is Found Only in Jesus
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
God is Spirit...And God is LOVE...God has the ability to bring us close to Him...It seems that God draws us to Him and He enables us to believe in Him and to come and believe in Jesus...God is Almighty and is control of everything including faith (and why would He not be in control of faith and belief?)...Without God we would not know Him or Jesus...It seems that God makes the first move in our belief of Him and in our salvation by enabling us to have faith and believe in Jesus...
God enables us...He draws us near to Himself and Jesus...
God is LOVE and He LOVES the world and He wants everyone to have salvation and a relationship with Him and His Son...Some respond to His call and this drawing of them and others do not...Some people respond to this drawing but temptation by the evil one can uproot one's faith, as can just the circumstances in our lives...Some atheists go beyond not believing and declare that there is no God...Some people are lukewarm in their belief about Jesus and say He is (just) a Good Man or a Prophet...Jesus is the Son of God...He is Divine...But God LOVES all His children, and like a disobedient child or a problem child, that child is still LOVED by God...He still LOVES His lost children, and He patiently waits for them...This is because God is full of grace and truth, and we are saved by His Grace and the Gift of His Son...Salvation is found in no one else...And though we may not believe or realize these things for a lifetime, if God sees that we have been lost for a very long time and we them get drawn and come back to Him, then He becomes filled with compassion and comes running toward us to draw us near Him, enabling us to be saved by His Son and His Grace...