Bible Question:
John, Are you saying that salvation is not through faith alone, but through an act of faith seeded by the Power of the Holy Spirit? Rich |
Bible Answer: RS, No. What I mean to say is that the Bible says that regeneration by the Holy Spirit preceeds faith. The "natural man" considers spiritual truth as foolishness and that he is totally incapable of understanding because he is spiritually dead. Saving faith is a spiritual gift, without which no man may be saved. Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 2 Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; James 1:17 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. Grace that did not include the gift of faith, would be useless to the spiritually dead. John |