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1 | Can MY faith in Christ save me? | Eph 2:8 | RNtim | 193021 | ||
As a Christian, can OUR faith save us? Peter denied Christ 3 times. If his faith is stronger than mine and he failed at the most crucial moment how could my faith possibly save me. Rather is it not the perfect faith of Christ that saves me. Is the faith spoke of in the bible really the faith of our Lord? | ||||||
2 | Can MY faith in Christ save me? | Eph 2:8 | BradK | 193022 | ||
Hi RNtim, If faith cannot save us, what does or can? Our faith is not a blind faith, but has as its' object the Lord Jesus Christ! Part of your answer lies in Gal. 2:17 "But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!" (NASB) "For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS." (Rom. 4:3 NASB) "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast." (Eph. 2:8-9 NASB) "nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified." (Gal. 2:16 NASB) The KJV (literally) reads on Gal. 2:20 " I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." I trust this will help to answer your question. BradK |
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3 | Can MY faith in Christ save me? | Eph 2:8 | RNtim | 193026 | ||
thank you BradK for the answer provided. The verse in Gal 2:20 is very good. I will read and meditate on that. So what this is saying is the origin of my faith is truely coming from the Christ that lives within me which I recieved upon salvation and not of myself. That faith is perfect faith - sealed by his promise at the cross. | ||||||
4 | Can MY faith in Christ save me? | Eph 2:8 | CDBJ | 193027 | ||
Greetings RNtim and welcome to the forum. Here is a point that has helped me understand the word “faith” and it might clear thing up a little. The word faith is what’s know as a transitive verb, that is it has a subject and an object it’s the object of faith that has all the merit or gets all the credit, not the subject or the one having the faith or the one believing. Jesus must be the object of faith in salvation “as the living word”. That’s the starting point for the child of God and as a believer in Christ one continues in God’s plan by exercising faith in God’s “written word”, The Bible. As for Peter’s stumbling you might be able to derive some comfort from the following verses. Romans 3:3 What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? 2 Tim. 2:11-13 It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him; 12If we endure, we shall also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us; 13If we are faithless, He remains faithful; for He cannot deny Himself. Sometimes even as in Peter’s case we aren’t faithful but that doesn’t change the fact that God is faithful. I like this poem by the famous preacher, Charles Spurgeon. "If ever it should come to pass, That sheep of Christ might fall away, My fickle, feeble soul, alas! Would fall a thousand times a day." I hope you enjoy the forum, CDBJ |
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