You fail to address:
--why would Jesus tell those people "YOU believe" if God is to do the work of believing for them?
--Whose culpability is it if they did not believe?
--Why would God command men to believe, as the jailer in Acts 16, if God does that work for men?
--how can the Bible call God 'just' and 'righteous' in condemning men for not believing when God alone controls if a man believes or not?
--How can God not be culpable for the faithless when God alone is totally in control of who has faith and who does not?
--How can God not be a respecter of persons when He unconditionally, arbitrarily does the work of believing for one person but not another?
--What sense does Exodus 4 make in God giving miraculous signs to induce a belief in the Israelites when God alone controls if they have belief or not? John 20:30-31 it makes no sense for John to write down some of the miracles of Christ performed to induce a belief in people if people have no control as to whether he believes or not. All miracles performed in the Bible were useless, worthless for they could do nothing to induce a belief in man. Mk 16:20 miracles were performed to 'confirm the word' of God but how could this confirmation take place if men could not believe in those miracles or believe the word of God if man does not have the ability to believe.
Again, 1 Cor 16:10
Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
The phrase "work of the Lord" does NOT refer to work the Lord does for men but refers to the work the Lord has given to men to do as Timothy and Paul were both doing the work of the Lord. Obviously the phrases "work of God" and "work of the Lord" mean that God is the source of the work that is given to men to do. Hence those who who believe have chosen to do the work of God exactly as Timothy and Paul both did the work of the Lord in carrying out the work the Lord gave them to do. The Lord sent Paul on missionary journeys....did Paul did that 'work of the Lord" in going and preaching per the great commission or did the Lord do that missionary work, carry out the great commission while Paul sat idle?
And you CONTINUE to take Jn 16:16 ot of context.
Your opening line of your post is a lie because even the posts that you have been replying address your bullet points - but your tongue is unable to respond in righteousness, so you lie - just see the post to which you replied or the below.
Your illegal grammar wrongly divides the Word of God such as your bullet point above "--the required
WORK in order to" where your heart's treasure (Matthew 15:16-19) wickedly separates "the work of God" from "believe" recorded in John 6:29!
The following carefully examines the Lord's words with legal grammar in Truth (John 14:6).
REGARDLESS OF THE SURROUNDING CONVERSATION IN JOHN CHAPTER 6, THE WORD OF GOD DEFINES THAT
I BELIEVE IN HIM WHOM THE FATHER HAS SENT (JOHN 6:29) AS BEING
THE WORK OF GOD; THEREFORE, GOD CONTROLS BELIEF/FAITH IN ME, AND THIS BLESSING DECLARED BY JESUS APPLIES TO EVERY BELIEVER IN ALL TIME!
After the people asked "What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?" (John 6:28) of Jesus, then the Lord dispels the notion that man manipulates faith/belief with His response of "
this is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29). Notice Jesus' removal of the work of men, so man does not manipulate faith/belief according to Jesus (John 6:29).
When you preach things like "The people asked what work is it that
WE DO and not what work will God do for us. Jesus gave them a work to do: believe", then your heart (Matthew 15:16-19) adulterates the Word of God into "
this is you working the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (the word of Ernest T. Bass).
In effect, you think "
this is you controlling the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (the word of Ernest T. Bass).
To further paraphrase while maintaining your context, you promote "
this is you controlling God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (the thoughts of Ernest T. Bass' heart).
Your heart's treasure of "
you controlling God" exalts yourself like the Most High. It is written "you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’" (Isaiah 14:13-14), and the passage is followed by the result of being thrust into the pit (Isaiah 14:15).
In Truth (John 14:6), Lord Jesus says God controls man for the Lord's proclamation of "
this is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29) uses intentional grammatical structure resulting in "
you believe in Him whom He has sent" being the sentence subject, and "
is the work of God" is the predicate, and the word "
is" is the verb in "
is the work of God", and the direct object of the sentence is "
the work of God", so the spiritual food that the Son of Man gives (John 6:27) is that God controls the "
you believing in Him whom He has sent" subject of the sentence (John 6:29).
Every single one of us Christians believing in Jesus whom the Father has sent is fully the work of God (John 6:29), both the "
you" and the "
believing" in John 6:29 are caused/created/controlled by God, by God's grace for God's glory.
I proclaim to you that the Word of God says "
this is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29).
NO SCRIPTURE STATES MAN HAS A FREE-WILL TO CHOOSE JESUS UNTO SALVATION, SO SELF-WILLED PERSONS REVILE KING JESUS (2 PETER 2:9-10) BY THEIR THOUGHTS THAT THEY CHOOSE JESUS DESPITE LORD JESUS SAYING "
YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME, BUT I CHOSE YOU" (JOHN 15:16) AND "COLOR=RED]I CHOSE YOU OUT OF THE WORLD[/COLOR]" (JOHN 15:19, INCLUDES SALVATION) AND "
WHAT I SAY TO YOU I SAY TO ALL" (MARK 13:37).
See Lord Jesus Christ's sayings "
He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day" (John 12:48).