Hi, I think we should not make up doctines. For most of them people do not explain.
For example: Salvation
Shouldn’t we first know the meaning?
And then we use those doctrines to make others doctrines..without saying everything that could be meant by it our not meant bt it.
And “faith alone” Shouldn’t we know what faith is, and whose faith, or faithfulness it’s referring to?
Then you have the different versions, one might say you “have been saved” and another " you are saved"
I just believe that it’s hard enough to know what scriptures are referring to…and then to add what it does not say…
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For example say we applied the same sentiments to the ark in Noah’s day.
Grace have you been saved through faithfulness of the ark. The faithfulness of the ark is not of yourselves it is a gift from God. Not by your work to earn but a gift so no man can boast.
Now one also has to know what type of work…Is it speaking of: works to earn, or any effort on our part?
It’s earning that causes one to boast. Earning comes with an attitude.
But when God tells you to get in the ark and it takes effort to
walk. That effort is a type of work too.
The Ark is a place of deliverence.
The ark is a place of salvation.
The ark can save, but the ark alone saves no one, unless they take the effort to get in the ark.
But the ark saved, meaning it was a place of refuge when the flood came. Without the flood the ark would have no reason to save. The ark which went through the the waters wasn’t without the waters.
So it makes it sound like the same water that could have destroyed them help to bring them through. For the ark could not float until the waters came.
Just as the waters in the red sea, for Israel’s obedience to Moses’s command brought them safely through the waters but they had to take the effort and move toward the water. Without believing God through obedience to the commands of Moses they would have been killed by the Egyptians.
So in this case they were saved through the water by the water as well.
So yes one might say we are saved through His faithfulness but saving through his faithfulnes takes your obedience.
So Salvation in this sense of using “faithfulness of Christ”
Is not without your obedience to believe on Christ.
The question is: Where else in scripture is Christ’s faithfulness said to be a gift?
Just my thoughts