And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. The day Adam and Eve sinned they became disconnected , as in the case of the vine pruned away. An aimless life without Christ is a living death . Dead Many hold faith as an opinion. Saving faith is a transaction by which those who receive Christ join themselves in covenant relation with God.
Genuine faith is life .
A living faith means an increase of vigor, a confiding trust, by which the soul becomes a conquering power. It is impossible for finite minds to comprehend the work of redemption. The beginning of redemption we may know here through a personal experience. Its results reach through the eternal ages. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.