Faith is not a gift but often interpreted as such because of an assumption made when reading v 8-9 in Chapter 2 of Ephesians. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. The assumption is in the English reading that faith is the gift here. In the greek the two are not linked when you inspect the forms (masculine, feminine, neuter). Faith (pisteos) is feminine, Gift (doron) is neuter. New testament scholars suggest, the first sentence of verse 8 as a whole -or- salvation is the gift being referred to.
Here you have a "professor" of soteriology using healing texts as salvation texts. Leighton proves total depravity every time he tries teaching from the Holy Writ.
Since faith is a gift from God, there is no problem here for Reformed theology.
Faith is not a gift but often interpreted as such because of an assumption made when reading v 8-9 in Chapter 2 of Ephesians.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
The assumption is in the English reading that faith is the gift here. In the greek the two are not linked when you inspect the forms (masculine, feminine, neuter). Faith (pisteos) is feminine, Gift (doron) is neuter. New testament scholars suggest, the first sentence of verse 8 as a whole -or- salvation is the gift being referred to.
Here you have a "professor" of soteriology using healing texts as salvation texts. Leighton proves total depravity every time he tries teaching from the Holy Writ.