Is It God That Caused or Made the Believer to Choose to Believe?
1) Direct Answer
Yes—God is the author of the believer’s faith. He draws, reveals, and quickens the heart so that the believer willingly chooses Christ. He does not coerce against the will; He makes the will willing by His grace.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- John 6:44: “No man can come to me, except the Father… draw him.”
- John 6:37: “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me.”
- Ephesians 2:8–9: “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”
- Philippians 2:13: “It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
- Acts 16:14: “The Lord opened” Lydia’s heart, and she attended to the things spoken.
- 1 Corinthians 12:3: “No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.”
- 2 Timothy 2:25; Acts 11:18: God “gives” repentance.
- John 1:12–13: We are born “not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
- John 10:27; John 8:47: “My sheep hear my voice… He that is of God heareth God’s words.”
- Psalm 110:3: “Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.”
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Man will not and cannot come on his own; God must draw and open the heart.
- When God reveals Christ, the heart is quickened; the will is made willing, not violated.
- Therefore the believer’s choice is real, but it springs from God’s prior work of grace. The faith that believes is God’s gift, not man’s production.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, He chose you before you chose Him, He called you, and when His Voice struck your heart, you gladly came. That’s the mystery of grace—sovereign drawing, willing believing.
Existing Follow-Up Answers
- Explain in Detail Romans 9: 10-23 and in So Doing Answer This : Is It Not Unjust to Deliberately Raise Pharaoh and Harden His Heart in Order to Destr?
1) Direct Answer No. It is not unjust. Romans 9:10–23 shows God’s sovereign right to show mercy and His righteous judgment to harden the stubborn - Can We Not Also Say That It Is God That Caused or Made the Unbeliever to Choose Not to Believe?
1) Direct Answer No—not in the same way. God is not the author of unbelief or sin. Unbelief springs from man’s own fallen heart and love of darkn
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Hear ye Him
62-0711 §70
Now, we take ... if that son had been a good son... He was just exactly... Now, remember, he was a born son. Now don't miss this. He was a born son. But year after year he progressed. He was constantly about the Father's business. He done the work just exactly the way the Father did. How the tutor said, "Oh, that's wonderful." Tell the Father, "Why, it's just exactly the way You'd have run it if You were there. He bawled out this, He condemned this, He give this a place. And He done this just exactly the way You do...
Wisdom versus Faith
62-0401 §172
Who is the door? Christ said, "I am the door to the sheepfold," as I read in my text. "My sheep will hear My voice. A stranger they'll not follow." You'll never twist one in those organizations out there. He'll come out of it as sure as the world. "I'll take them from the fold, and I'll lead them. I'll go before them." Amen! "They'll know it's Me. No one can walk like Me. No one can do the things that I do," He'd say. Amen! "Rabbi, now we know thou comest from God, 'cause no man could do these miracles that You do,...
Birth Pains
65-0124 §41
Now, we feel and know that this is the truth, that the systems was rocked in every age, and every one of their systems had to rot and die out, until she brought forth that Church, out of that rotten mess, came forth the Word itself. The Word of the Lord come to the prophets. It never come to the priest; it come to the prophets. And notice, and when it did, finally that Word altogether was born here in human flesh. The fullness of the Godhead bodily rested in Him. He was the Word. The prophets was part of the Word,...
Door to the heart
59-1128 §26
Many a person walks out the door of evangelistic meeting, knowing that God's leading them to the altar, and yet claim to be a Christian. How can God ever control that person? God wants to come in and control you. He doesn't want to come in and be controlled by you; He wants to come in for His own purpose of controlling you and leading you to eternal life, something good for you. When you accept Jesus, you must say, "Thou art my God. Thou art my Lord. Take me, all that I am: soul, body, and spirit. I dedicate myself...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 5:E-146
Now in spite of the fact that Balaam knew the proper approach to God and could bring forth a revelation from the Lord by means of a special enduement of power, he was still for all of that a bishop in the false group. For what did he do now in order to win favor with Balak? He formulated a plan wherein God would be forced to deal with Israel in death. Just as Satan knew that he could beguile Eve (cause her to fall in fleshly sin) thus causing God to pass His pronounced sentence of death against sin, so Balaam knew...