66. Isn’t our faith disqualified as the condition of salvation because then it would be a work, which would put God in our debt?
Actually, no. God chose the ‘simplemindedness’ of faith precisely because it is not a work at all. It’s merely the open hand that receives His life-preserver, the open heart that accepts the seed of God’s penetrating Explanation about the means of our rescue. Exercising faith in God, according to Scripture, is a non-work—a mandated Sabbath work stoppage. The function of faith is a faculty of our God-created and God-imaging makeup, so by design has been placed under our own limited and mortal yet genuine sovereignty, authority, and control. This is the case because faith comports perfectly with God’s graciousness in providing a salvation of such no-strings-attached generosity. Faith simply needs to be properly invested in multiple eyewitness testimony and other solid evidence—precisely the sort of stuff you find marbled throughout the Bible, coincidentally.
The Premial Atonement 