Yes, Faith is given in order to believe. However, you are avoiding answering the question. You claimed that Faith is given to all, so all have the choice to believe. I keep asking, without success:
Where does scripture say that Faith is given to ALL?
Here is why actual scripture verses are important. You force me to guess at your veiled reference.
[Matthew 18:12-14 NIV]
12 "What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
(v.12) Man owns all the sheep (God owns all of His sheep) ... one sheep wanders off (one person that already belongs to God wanders off)
(v.13) God finds His lost person
(v.14) "these little ones" = believers = already saved = God's chosen sheep.
- [Matthew 18:6 NIV] 6 "If anyone causes one of these little ones--those who believe in me--to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
[2Pe 3:1-9 NKJV]
1 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in [both of] which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of creation." 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world [that] then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth [which] are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning [His] promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
(v.1) Peter is writing to BELIEVERS, so the message in verse 9 is also directed towards believers.
(v.2-7) Peter discuses an argument being made by "scoffers" asking why has Jesus not returned yet.
(v.8) Peter answers this question for the believers.
(v.9) "longsuffering towards us" = "us" means the saved/believers and is contrasted with the unsaved/scoffers.
Jesus has not yey returned, because he is patiently waiting for all of the saints to be born and be saved. Jesus is not willing to allow any saint to perish by returning too soon. This is not a statement about God's desire for all mankind to repent and choose to believe.
Empty rhetoric. Nothing is obvious except that you cannot or will not support your claim that God gives faith to ALL with a scripture verse that says anything of the sort.