Belief of the truth, nothing more and nothing less, is what separates the saved from the damned. Those who maintain that there is something more than belief, are, quite literally, beyond belief. In the pages that follow, Dr. Clark defends the view that faith is assent to a proposition, and that saving faith is assent to propositions found in the Bible. Saving faith is neither an indescribable encounter with a divine person, nor heart knowledge as opposed to head knowledge. Mindless encounters and meaningless relationships are not saving faith.
Truth is propositional, and one is saved and sanctified only through believing true statements.
Faith come by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. The anti-intellectual cast of virtually all modern thought, from the university chair to the barroom stool, controls the pulpits as well. But Christians, Paul wrote, have the mind of Christ. Our relationship to him is intellectual. And since Christ is his mind and we are ours, no relationship could be more intimate than that.