What is saving faith? (Rom. 10:1-4)
The Hypocrisy of the Scribes and Pharisees, Illustration in the Bowyer Bible Let me begin with a question: what is saving faith? Well, one could respond to that be asking, does it even make sense to call faith saving? The answer of course is, yes, for our Lord told the woman who was a sinner, “Thy sins are forgiven,” and “Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace” (Lk. 7:48, 50). Clearly there is such a thing as a faith that saves for this is the language that our Lord uses. And the salvation there had to do with the forgiveness of sins. This faith has to do with salvation in the sense of being saved from the guilt and grip of sin. In the same way, Paul was praying for his kinsmen to be saved, and as the context makes clear, they were unsaved because they were unbelieving. Paul praying for them to be saved was Paul praying for them to believe that they might be saved, and, like the woman in Luke 7, by that faith to have the forgiveness of sins. But...
