Why don't you try believing what they say?
Paul:
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth" (Ro.1:16).
According to your ideas the gospel by itself is not the "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." According to you a person must do other things besides believe to be saved.
Believe we have to obey Jesus.
All the scriptures that say we have to ‘believe’, those scriptures do not nullify the scriptures that tell us what we have to obey.
Acts 26:20 First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds.
Peter:
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God...And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you" (1 Pet.1:23,25).
A person is born again by the word of God, the gospel. If it takes more than that then why didn't Peter mention anything else?
When people ask Peter what they should do, he told them to get water baptized, the baptism of repentance.
In Acts 2:37 those to whom Peter preached responded by asking, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
Acts 2:38 Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Peter baptized Cornelius too.
James:
"He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created" (Jas.1;18).
That is the same truth which Peter preached about the new birth. But according to your ideas it is impossible to be born again by just the gospel.
No, James says that faith and right action works together, and that THAT is the faith that was spoken of that made Abraham righteous.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
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22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
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24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
The Lord Jesus:
"Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life" (Jn.5:24).
According to your ideas no one can inherit eternal life just by believing.
Unless we eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, we have no life in us. Jesus tells us the truth, if anyone obeys his word, he will never see death, John 8:51. So then, we can see that we have to believe that we have to obey Jesus.
