Sweetie, you claimed that belief was a work. The Bible clearly says it is the work of God.
If you can't tell the difference between the two, I am afraid I can't help you.
You have to be born again to understand the Book.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
You didn't answer the question. Did Paul & Timothy do the work of God? It's a very simple yes-or-no question.
You have to be born again to understand the Book?
My - isn't that exclusive? Just why would God give the inspired word of truth - the Bible - and then make it so that man who seeks the truth could not understand it unless he fully believed first?
Just where is man to get the education to believe first?
Sounds like circumventing word games to me.
And it appears that only the very intelligent "born again" people would have access to the Bible. What about the dummies of the world, the uneducated? Is God required to appear to all men in a dream that they would choose to believe first?