Grace is the gift in the verse,
but everything comes from God, even faith,
or the ability to believe.
FAITH is not salvation
It is how we receive
salvation offered to us in Grace
Ephesians 2:8 - For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God. (AMPC)
It both other wise Christ would never have died for the whole world. Election is always cooperate never individual. God never changes.The election of the Jews was cooperate so is election of the Gentiles
First of all No where in scripture does it ever say men are saved before they have faith. Because we are saved by grace through faith. Being regenerated is salvation. Man must first be convicted by The Holy Spirit of his sins and repent of those sins . He must hear the gospel and believe then if the Lord see's the man is serious God will save him. It's been called a relationship because both man and God are involved.
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Who was rich in mercy? Who made dead men alive with Christ? Who saved by grace? Who raised us up and seated us with God in heaven, in Christ? Who graciousky gave us faith as a gift so that we cannot boast about generating our own faith?
Ephesians 2:4-9 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
It's not both. If Christ has atoned for the entire world, then all have their sins paid for and God cannot send them to hell without being an unjust God. How could God send someone who is righteous to hell? He can't.
So, you must be wrong.
All to whom God makes alive with Christ will repent. People who are dead in their trespasses and sins won't repent. In fact, they won't even seek God. God must choose to pursue them and save them.
Grace is the unmerited favor that God chooses to grant to a spiritually dead man. Faith is the gift He gives to the man He has made alive with Christ so that the man can believe what God has graciously chosen to do.
4Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. 6There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.7But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; 9to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. 11But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
1 Corinthians 13 2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing
Luke 17 5The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey you.
16Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. 17Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
Faith is a gift.
So is breathing, sneezing, the hic ups.