John 6:44 and chapter 10. He draws you. You don’t come to Him unless He draws you. If He chose you from before the beginning, He won’t lose you. If He didn’t choose you, all the trying and pretending in the world won’t get you anywhere.
At least atheists are honest.
If God chose you, He’ll come to you, and you’ll know when it happens. If He doesn’t come to you, being religious won’t help.
Ask Him to draw you to Himself. He will if He wants, and if He does, He will give you the gifts of faith, grace, rebirth as His begotten son, righteousness, justification, glorification, the Spirit indwelling and sealing you and eternal life. Those are all gifts; you don’t earn any of it.
Read your own Bible and ignore people’s opinions. Unless they glorify God and not themselves, they are liars. When anyone tells you that you have to do something for God, they are liars. When anyone tries to sell you faith-plus-works, they are false prophets, so disregard their BS.
Whoever believes in their heart that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God and confesses it with their mouth, they shall be saved and given all of the above gifts instantly.
1 Timothy 2:3-6 “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants ALL people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for A… See more
What makes me sad is the total absence of Scripture to support the claim, and the incompleteness of the gospel truth within the context.