How is the gift of saving faith in Jesus Christ given? To answer this question, we must look more closely at the actual phenomena of faith and repentance, the new birth and growth in grace, and ask how the work of Christ is accomplished. How does it happen that someone comes to faith and has faith nurtured and strengthened?
Here I have to make a criticism of a remark by Calvin in which he makes faith depend on a prior acceptance of divine truth, as though the order of experience ...