Lord’s Day 7, Chapter 1: Salvation for Believers Only (2) / Chapter 2: The Nature of Faith (1)

Chapter 1: Salvation for Believers Only (continued) Radically opposed to all these universalistic and semi-universalistic theories of salvation stands the answer of the Catechism: "No; only those who are ingrafted into him, and receive all his benefits by a true faith." This answer is worthy of our closest consideration especially for two reasons. First of all, by the expression "ingrafted into him" it presents faith, not as an act on the part of man, but as a gift of God, a means whereby God...