He argues that there are only two classes, the saved and the damned, and he seems almost as anxious to damn a lot as to save a few. And he said unto them, Go ye into the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. I'm not interested in arguing about the ultimate fate of the heathen. God will handle their case according to His sovereign purpose and what I think will have no bearing on it one way or another. I trust that my readers will pardon me for the time and space I must consume in this study.
Faith is the belief of testimony, and where there is no testimony there can be no faith.
No one can believe something of which he has never heard. When the mind receives testimony and judges the witnesses to be credible and reliable, the intellect acknowledges a firm conviction or persuasion as to the subject of the testimony. This is not the faith that saves, however, but the foundation of it. One can never be saved by a mere intellectual state, because all intellectual states are involuntary and passive. An intellectual state cannot be commanded but we are commanded to believe as a condition of salvation.