Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.”
So why is the doctrine of faith toward God so important? There are numerous reasons given in scripture as to why it is important for the saints to understand the subject of faith, and we will briefly mention just three of those reasons in this section. The first reason that I have listed is because without faith it is impossible for people to be saved. In the above quoted passage of scripture the Holy Spirit teaches us that there are two ingredients required for the salvation of mankind, the one is grace and the other is faith. We can see very clearly from this passage that both ingredients come from God, for it is by God’s grace that we are saved, but it is also clear from this passage that the faith we need in order to receive God’s grace is also a gift from God. Sadly there are many suffering torment in hell today, because they rejected God’s counsel that they could only be saved by faith in His grace and tried to earn their salvation through works, only to find that God’s counsel stands.
Michael E.B. Maher
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