We are told that a gift cannot have stated conditions. Since it is said faith is a gift from God, does the exercising of faith require any conditions to be met? One must consider what one must do, if anything, to be said to ‘have faith.’ If faith has a stated condition(s), does it make faith ‘works’ for man to exercise faith? If not why not?
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1) Yes! It has to be accepted.
2) If you want to parse words, I suppose you could call this "work" - in the same manner that a baby "works" when offered the mom's bre@st to suckle.
If one is determined to lay the whole of salvation on God, IE: man has nothing,
absolutely NOTHING to do with it, then sure, "accepting" the gift of God would be considered work.
But this reminds me of the Pharisees that condemned Christ when he healed the cripple on the Sabbath. The Pharisees could talk and belittle Christ all day long, BUT when Christ spoke a few words - SPOKE, mind you - he was condemned as "WORKING" on the Sabbath.
Pity, but Christians
can be just as Pharisaical in their "beliefs" at times!!