Part 2
Summary:
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Your experience of faith in God is because of Him, not you. God is the solitary cause of believing what we hear from Him. If someone does not have faith, it is because God has not enabled them to hear Him. (Even though they may have "heard" Him. Matthew 13:13-17)
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The perception that believing is a choice we must make, reveals our self-righteousness under the law for righteousness.
Believing, and therefore teaching, people must choose to believe equals teaching “the man who does these things will live by them,” which is the law for righteousness, and Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. (Romans 10:4) -
You played no causal role in what happened (redemption) through the death and resurrection of Jesus, and no causal role in experiencing faith to believe it.
1 Corinthians 4:7 - "What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?"
Romans 10:20 - "I was found by those who did not seek Me, I was manifest to those who did not ask for Me."
Chapters 4 and 5 expose the (false) fundamental Christian/Catholic position of belief in personal responsibility for redemption and faith. I.e., What you have from God now and what you receive in the future depends on you. The NT language used for this false (anti-Christ) doctrine are the law for righteousness, unrighteousness, according to the flesh, human will and effort, and the man who does these things will live by them. Spirit-informed doctrine, however, makes clear that what we have from God now and what we'll receive in the future depends on Him, and is because of Him. The NT use of the word's truth, grace, promise, mercy, inheritance, and the phrase “according to the Spirit,” reveal and therefore demonstrate: You Have Nothing To Do With It