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Of course we must believe in Christ. And the only people who do believe are those whom God has appointed to faith.

"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." -- Acts 13:48

Faith is the conduit God has determined to employ to call forth His family from among all nations and races. If a person has faith in Jesus Christ it is because God determined from the foundation of the world to give that person His free, unmerited gift of grace through faith in Christ made possible by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

"Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you." -- John 10:25-26

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." -- Ephesians 1:4-6

Claim for yourself the ability and good sense and piety to believe in Christ. I'm grateful to lay the entire event, the desire and the doing, at the feet of the Savior who alone is 100% responsible for my new eyes, new ears and rebirth, according to the will of God.

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." -- Phil. 2:13