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8035  Forums / Theology Forum / Which One Is The Gift? on: January 13, 2007, 05:51:17 AM
A ) do what is impossible for a person to do and give faith in Himself to people?
Thanks , Soc, joker, and every one else. We are having some good discussions.
Faith is not a faculty but it is an agency. I have stated that every one has human faith, which is not saving faith, but it is still our faith. My point is we and our faculties do not get annihilated in order to become Christians. To not be able to apprehend divine knowledge and want to obey that command is to be in a state of darkness and rebellion. That is the reason we are not able to use faith for divine things. If we have no desire for divine knowledge we will  not view in our minds the glory of Christ then we will not trust in Him alone. Unless we understand that He is worthy of our trust by a divine knowledge then we will have no desire for Him and we will not have saving faith.

 Our will is involve in trusting Christ. We must submit to Him in order to trust Him. Now there is a negative and positive aspect here in the willing part in regeneration. Our will must not only be new , but our old will must be destroyed. In regeneration God destroys our old will and He gives us a new will, like a child, to obey Him and to trust Him alone.\" No man can serve two masters.\" Hate- Love gets turned upside down. In this sense faith is a gift, being our faith.

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