How does one drum up or create faith in all sorts of things? Did you need to drum up the faith to believe the sun will rise each morning? Or do you simply have faith the sun will rise because it is a reality of the universe? According to the scriptures, faith is not a work (Romans 4). People either believe God because He is true or they choose to reject this reality (Romans 1).
"Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18
The Bible says that God loves the world (John 3:16), desires that none should perish (2 Peter 3), that Christ came into the world to save sinners (everyone is a sinner, right?) (1 Tim. 1:15) if He is lifted up from the earth He draws all people to Himself (John 12:32), and that the Holy Spirit will come to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement (John 16:7-9)
Jesus speaking to the people of Jerusalem also points out that while He wanted to gather them they were not willing (Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:34), just as some who search the scriptures are not willing to come to Him (John 5:39-40).
So the scriptures show that God/Jesus calls all people and the Holy Spirit is at work in the world to convict of sin and reveal God's righteousness to everyone. God has and does offer the help, drawing, conviction to each person. No where does the Bible teach that God only grants some the help needed or possibility of faith or salvation.
There are 'Calvinistic' responses to all those verses.
For example, the 2 Peter 3, the not wishing that you perish, to whom is Peter writing? Not the world, Peter is writing to the beloved elect, read it in context, why would God patiently wait for those to repent whom He has not granted them to do so? Those whom He knows will never repent? See this idea is very Pelagian.
John 3:16 only says that those who believe will not perish, but says nothing about why anyone believes in Christ.
John 12:32, Christ drawing all peoples to Himself. Refer back to John 6, about God drawing. After the resurrection-glorification of Christ, Christ is doing the drawing, (He is God), so then all those He draws will come to Christ, nothing different from the earlier teaching. In Him saying I will draw all peoples to myself, does not mean every single person who is alive, just that if they are in God's list to be drawn, Christ will be doing the drawing. All peoples now includes the nations of the gentiles, not just the jews, which is EXACTLY what historically occurred, They went out to the nations of the world with the gospel.
NKJV says 'peoples' meaning types, not 'people' as in each every single person or you have a universal salvation going on.
32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all
peoples to Myself.”
AMPC clarifies, Christ means Jew and gentile peoples.
32 And I, if
and when I am lifted up from the earth [on the cross], will draw
and attract all men [Gentiles as well as Jews] to Myself.
You betcha people are most definitely not willing to come to Christ, yet He would welcome all that do.
The gospel is an open invitation to repent and believe, YET, God says there are none that seek Him.
So then it is His choice of who to draw or not.
It is God's choice who gets to hear the gospel. For some, the Holy Spirit has forbidden that they hear the gospel. People will not hear unless they are sent. God here has determined for those people at that time to not hear, so He did not permit them to go there to preach, so they were definitely not chosen to know Christ, and that was God's decision, not the apostles decision. So by circumstance, God restricts who gets to hear the gospel thus demonstrating salvation is by election according to His grace, not the willingness of men.
Acts 16:5-7New King James Version (NKJV)
5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
The Macedonian Call
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Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. 7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them.
8 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.