"Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "gary" <biblicist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> The following excerpt is taken from Lenski's commentary on Eph. 2:8.
>
>> I think the sentence, " Now the simple fact is that even in human
>> relations faith and confidence are produced in us by others, by what
>> they are and what they do; we never produce it ourselves." Hits the
>> proverbial nail on the head, so to speak. God convinces us through His
>> word to trust Him.
>
> It's a nice excerpt, but it doesn't help your case. The trouble
> here isn't really what sentences we agree with, but with
> your deviant definitions of some of the words. Surely we all
> agree that God grants faith and that the means of granting faith
> is His Word. But you add that man's intellect and agreement must
> be added to God's Word for it to be efficacious.
>
> Contrarily, most of us don't. We trust God's Word to be God's
> Word. If God wants to attach the promise of His Word to
> water or wine or bread, then all the better. His Word never
> returns to Him void, so the Word given in Baptism is just
> as efficacious for an infant as an adult.
>
> Intellectual assent is a work "of yourself". See how your
> deviant doctrine of works righteousness undermines the most
> fundamental expression of the Gospel: Infant Baptism.
However, I agree it is not a matter of "assent." The standard Reformed
Theology definition of faith is that it is comprised of three parts:
"According to Scripture, "saving faith" is comprised of three constituent
elements, knowledge (notitia), assent (assensus), and trust (fiducia.) "A
New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith," Robert L. Reymond, p.
726.
Gary http://www.faithalone.org/
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