What kind of faith saves?

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What’s Your Question? for Dec, 29, 2010

All Bible believers accept the teaching that faith is essential for salvation, but what kind of faith is necessary to be saved? When Noah was warned about the flood, he had faith, but what if he had not built the ark? (Heb. 11:8). Would that faith have saved him? Abraham believed God was going to give him a land, but what if he had not obeyed to “go out to the place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance”? (Heb. 11:8). Faith only would have left the Israelites bondage to Egypt (Heb. 11:29). Simply believing in God will not save a person. James said, “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also” (Jas. 2:26). What kind of faith will you have in the new year?