67. Isn’t faith something from ourselves, so doesn’t God have to reject it as being tainted by depravity?
Not a problem. Merely hearing the powerful Explanation of God about Jesus, along with all its intrinsic corroboration, generates faith; therefore that Explanation itself is God’s real dynamo for our salvation. Faith must be based on evidence and proof or it’s misplaced and will make a person ashamed for exerting it without proper foundation. That’s why the phenomenon of faith in God’s Proclamation actually gives credit to that Explanation for generating the faith in the first place. Sweet! And besides that, the faculty of believing is part of human nature, so is structurally good, not depraved. What it attaches to makes all the difference.
The Premial Atonement 