Saving Faith—A Certain Knowledge

As we proceed in our consideration of what has been called "The Golden Chain of Salvation," we come to the activity of saving faith. We have seen that faith must first be understood as the bond by which God through the Holy Spirit grafts us into Christ. Nobody is saved without that bond, without being grafted into Christ. That includes infants. For all, the Bible teaches, are conceived and born in sin. But in the doctrine of salvation, it is the activity of faith that is on the foreground. The...