The gift of faith is part of the manifestations of the spirit MD comes with the gift of hy spirit. Every italicised word in the Bible is added by man and has no corresponding Greek word it was translated.from. in 1cor 12: uses the italicized word gifts. Faith is the same as the word believing which is a verb Nd connotes action. To believe is a work...its the only works we are required to do and all actions for the believer should spring forth from believing God's word. Hence works of faith. A word study on the Greek word pistis is a fun study. As far as not being saved by works we are told to "believe unto salvation" "unto"is a the Greek preposition "eis" which is translated as "to the point of". You believe God unto salvation. It's not works, you go to the point of receiving MD God does the miracle of the new birth. You basically admit you agree Christ was raised from the dead, confess him as Lord and then the supernatural.is done by God and you are given spirit as a gift. That is how I've come to understand it. And why we are not saved by works but grace as it is the free gift of God. You still gotta.show up to receive it though and that's the believing.

The gift of faith is part of the manifestations of the spirit MD comes with the gift of hy spirit. Every italicised word in the Bible is added by man and has no corresponding Greek word it was translated.from. in 1cor 12: uses the italicized word gifts. Faith is the same as the word believing which is a verb Nd connotes action. To believe is a work...its the only works we are required to do and all actions for the believer should spring forth from believing God's word. Hence works of faith. A word study on the Greek word pistis is a fun study. As far as not being saved by works we are told to "believe unto salvation" "unto"is a the Greek preposition "eis" which is translated as "to the point of". You believe God unto salvation. It's not works, you go to the point of receiving MD God does the miracle of the new birth. You basically admit you agree Christ was raised from the dead, confess him as Lord and then the supernatural.is done by God and you are given spirit as a gift. That is how I've come to understand it. And why we are not saved by works but grace as it is the free gift of God. You still gotta.shoe up to receive it though and that's the believing.

The gift of faith is part of the manifestations of the spirit MD comes with the gift of hy spirit. Every italicised word in the Bible is added by man and has no corresponding Greek word it was translated.from. in 1cor 12: uses the italicized word gifts. Faith is the same as the word believing which is a verb Nd connotes action. To believe is a work...its the only works we are required to do and all actions for the believer should spring forth from believing God's word. Hence works of faith. A word study on the Greek word pistis is a fun study.