Featured Based on faith

The Greek preposition "ek" means out of or out from, and points to the origin of something. Out from faith refers to something based on faith, or more explicitly, based on God crediting our faith as righteousness. And what is that something? Salvation by being transferred into Christ where we undergo the washing of regeneration, rebirth as a new creation, and are then indwelt with the Holy Spirit. Thus all the blessings of salvation can be said to be "based on faith.!"

Romans 1:17, "...But the righteous one will live based on faith." I think walking according to our (credited) faith is in view here rather than salvation's blessings.

Romans 3:30, "since indeed God who will justify the circumcised based on faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one. Here I think the idea is New Covenant faith arises from Old Covenant faith for Jews, and arises without prior faith in God for Gentiles.

Romans 4:16, "For this reason [the promises to Abraham's heirs] is based on faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

"Ek pistos" appears in about 10 more verses which will be addressed later.

 

Romans 5:1, "Therefore, having been justified on the basis of God crediting our faith as righteousness, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

 

Romans 9:30, "What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, moreover the righteousness that is based on God crediting their faith as righteousness.

 

Romans 9:32, "Why? Because they did not pursue it based on faith, but as though they could by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

 

Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise based on God crediting our faith in Jesus Christ as righteousness might be given to those who believe.

 

Galatians 2:16
nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified based on God crediting our faith in Christ as righteousness and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

 

Galatians 3:8
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles based on God crediting their faith as righteousness, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU.”

Galatians 3:24
Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified based on God crediting our faith as righteousness.

 

Galatians 5:5
For we through the Spirit, based on God crediting our faith,as righteousness, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

The opening conjunction (gar translated as "for") might better be translated as "The fact is," we through the Spirit....
Now I think the idea of through the Spirit refers to being indwelt. Those who are indwelt are the "we" of the verse. Then we get "out of faith" which is best translated based on God crediting our faith as righteousness, are expectantly waiting for the hope of our righteousness at the second coming of our Lord.

 

Romans 10:6
But the righteousness that is based on faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down)

 

Post #10 simply regurgitates the same unbiblical fallacy once again. The claim is God credits His own faith instilled in the Elect as righteousness. Twaddle through and through. Scripture says God credited Abraham's faith, not the faith God instilled in Abraham. Scripture says "your faith" has saved you, not your faith which God beamed in with His divine transporter, saved you.
By adding to scripture, any verse can be made to say the opposite of what God intended.

When the Greek reads "ek pisteos" the idea is an action by God arising from crediting faith as righteousness. Thus we are justified based on God accepting Christ's faithfulness in that He sacrificed Himself as a ransom for all, provided God credits our faith in Christ's sacrifice.

 

Galatians 2:16 (Edited and Interpreted version)
nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified based on the works of the Law but by means of Christ Jesus's faithfulness, even we have believed into Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified based on the faithfulness of Christ and not based on the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no person will be justified.

 

I have answered that question at least a half dozen times. Faith comes from hearing the word of God. Scripture can lead a person to Christ. Matthew 13 tells us of the four examples, three kinds of people put their faith in the gospel. But only one went "all in" for Christ.

Total Spiritual Inability is false doctrine.

The meaning of author is exemplar of faith, for it is Christ's faithfulness we are to fully trust in. This will result in complete rather than partial faith, trusting in Him alone and not also in worldly things.

 

Yet another false claim, only the first soil suffered from total spiritual inability. Why not address the other three?

 

Folks, look at Matthew 13 and ask why Jesus needed to speak in parables to preclude his audience from understanding the gospel. Ask yourself why God hardened the hearts in Romans 11 if everyone was unable already to understand the gospel.
Any sort of objective study of scripture shows "total spiritual inability" to be a fiction.

If faith is "beamed into" believers, why is it harder for a rich man to believe?

This is really simple and really obvious, only those who have closed their minds to truth espouse the "T."

 

And folks, the gift is salvation, not our faith. That is why we are saved by grace through or by means of faith. These folks crank through their list of false interpretations of scripture as if never rebutted, but seldom if every address the rebuttal.