How do we know that God must enable us to believe?

The necessity for divine enablement in the act of believing is woven throughout biblical teaching. Romans 3 states that all men are inherently sinful and cannot seek God on their own. John 5:40 indicates that people do not want to come to Christ for life. This shows that our nature is not just resistant; it is spiritually dead, unable to respond to God without first being made alive by His Spirit. As demonstrated in John 6:65, those who come to the Lord must be drawn by the Father. This emphasizes the need for God's initiating grace to overcome our natural unwillingness and inability to seek Him.