December 2015
Have you ever believed something to be true only to discover later that it was false? This is a dangerous thing when it comes to where you will spend eternity! This issue deals with salvation and Bible myths. In it, we decipher, according to the Word, fact from fiction.
Have you ever believed something to be true only to discover later that it was false? This is a dangerous thing when it comes to where you will spend eternity! This issue deals with salvation and Bible myths. In it, we decipher, according to the Word, fact from fiction.
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The Price of<br />
Salvation:<br />
Grace or Works?<br />
By Helen Murray<br />
In another article I wrote about<br />
belief. Biblically it means something<br />
like knowing. If something<br />
resonates within me occupying<br />
the totality of my body and person<br />
unpolluted by any argument,<br />
that is belief of Biblical proportions.<br />
That is the way Abraham<br />
believed when God promised<br />
him children numbered like the<br />
stars, and he held that belief all<br />
his days until the birth of Isaac,<br />
even though Sarah gave him<br />
her Egyptian handmaid Hagar<br />
to have a child for her. This was<br />
not a human belief. This was a<br />
belief planted in him by God Himself,<br />
and which he had accepted.<br />
This was a gift of faith. He had<br />
sought truth, or sought God, and<br />
this was God’s response to him,<br />
this gift of faith. He is the father<br />
of men of faith today as well as<br />
of the Jewish people. People<br />
of faith are Abraham’s seed.<br />
Galatians 3:6, 7. Even as Abraham<br />
believed God, and it was<br />
accounted to him for righteousness.<br />
Know you therefore that<br />
they who are of faith, the same<br />
are the children of Abraham.<br />
Not all Jewish people are the<br />
seed of Abraham in this sense,<br />
but of course there are many<br />
Jews with the faith gift. True<br />
Christians have the gift of faith as<br />
had Abraham, and can believe<br />
as simply and totally as little<br />
child, which indeed we are in the<br />
sight of Almighty God. It is not a<br />
human belief, but rather a knowing<br />
from God. Christians can<br />
usually remember the day when<br />
this gift was first given to them<br />
personally. Life takes on a different<br />
quality from that time on, an<br />
eternal quality that doesn’t wear<br />
off. It doesn’t always include the
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