But, this is belief does not bring salvation. What is required for salvation is trust or volitional faith, the surrender of the will to God. This is the acknowledgment that Jesus is Lord and Savior and is the only path to salvation and God. It is a personal surrender of the entirety of one's self. There is both an active and an inactive side of faith, as may be seen in the above discussion.
Faith is, effectively, both a noun and a verb.
It can be a dead, unproductive event. The faith of the chair's existence is of little value, in and of itself. The verb represents the active side of life. It is productive, for, when faith in the chair results in a trusting knowledge to actually sit, one has received the benefit. So, it is with faith in Christ.