Is believing/faith a work ?

[brightfame52]

No, righteousness has always existed but the Jewish Law has not. There was no law until Moses!

Faith and believing are human acts, they are not works of the law! The law cannot save; the law can only show that we need saved. Man’s actions are incapable of causing God to save. God cannot be obligated by anything outside of himself. That’s why it is by grace that we are saved.

Doug

Believing is a work, if you rest your salvation on your believing, its works and denial of grace.

 

[brightfame52]

@Selah

Believing and faith are not works.

Yes they are, believing is an act done with the mind and heart.

 

[Selah]

@Selah



Yes they are, believing is an act done with the mind and heart.

Nah. It seems to me that you’re trying real hard to believe what you yourself say. I think you know it ain’t so.

s e l a h

 

[brightfame52]

Nah. It seems to me that you’re trying real hard to believe what you yourself say. I think you know it ain’t so.

s e l a h

No, its actually easy for me to see.

 

[brightfame52]

Salvation by works is when man chooses God, but Salvation by Grace is when God chooses the man ! Ps 65:4

4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

That word causeth qarab:

(cause to) approach, (cause to) bring (forth, near), (cause to) come (near, nigh), (cause to) draw near (nigh)

Ps 33:19

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.