@Decopymope
@Paul Christensen
@ Eternally Greatful
You are asking What is Faith that results in receiving the Spirit of Christ?
Faith is a Gift from God.
The Gift is given a man, in measures. (Amounts).
The measures (amounts) of The Gift of Faith,
Is proportionate to the individuals Effort, of Hearing (reading) and learning ABOUT the Lord God.
Hearing, (reading), Learning About the Lord God (or anything else), is called:
Being "enlightened".
It is a Beginning of a relationship between the: Teacher and the student, about a particular SUBJECT.
Doesn't matter WHO the teacher IS or the student;
Mommy the teacher, her child the student;
Mistress the school teacher, pupil the student;
Cleric the teacher, congregant the student;
Word of God the teacher, listening crowd the student.
When the teacher IS teaching; and the student Hearing...
Enlightment is occuring.
The believability of what the teacher IS Teaching, Lands squarely on the student to Accept the Enlightment and believe it of Not.
Whether or Not the student Accepts believing the Enlightment, is at the moment; irrelevant.
The Enlightment HAS occurED.
Pertaining specifically to the Word of God;
It IS taught; the Word of God, IS absolute TRUTH.
An individual (student), is taught, IF "Hearing", to then Verify, what they "Hear", against what IS "written" and Approved, by God.
A "student", still has his own freewill, to believe it or Not.
A "student", believing or not, has still been enlightened...and pertaining to God, that same student, BEGINNER or MATURE, is being Gifted with MEASURES of FAITH from God, so that the Student CAN, believe and trust the Word of God.
Humans are Naturally Curious...
They all can naturally want to KNOW About new Subjects...
AND
Humans are ALSO, Naturally curious about the WHY factor of UNDERSTANDING, what they HEAR...
AND (society wise to be impatient, and many times, Taught Entitled to receive the UNDERSTANDING, "Before", FREELY, choosing To Believe or Trust the enlightment of the knowledge they are receiving.
Pertaining to God...that is where the Gift of Faith comes in...
Hear little, read little, receive little MEASURES of Faith...receiving the gift to Believe; without YET Understanding.
Continue hearing, reading, learning, being enlightened, believing, the Gift of Faith Increases.
Stop ^^... and the Gift of Faith stops being given.
Return...and the Gift of Faith AGAIN is given.
Do not Return...The Gift of Faith, remains ceased to be given...and the Result for Such a person IS: they Have Fallen from "FAITH".
Faith from God is an Offering.
Humans have the FREEWILL to accept or Reject any Offering God Offers.
Faither - you asked questions of an incomplete nature making a response you were hoping for guesswork.
And further commented...
Acceptance...ONLY pertains to God.
Disagree. Acceptance of ANY contractual agreement pertains specifically to the parties identified in the Contract.
In this case-
God Offers... an individual can Accept the terms and Agree, or Not.
Cooper - you have made your objection to the Lords Offering and Acceptance of an individual as a ONCE made Contract...between the Lord God AND an individual...can Thereafter be Become a Broken Contract.
Then you give Scriptures (of falling away from Faith as your evidence).
The Scriptures of Falling AWAY from Faith...do NOT Pertain to or Apply to; an individual WHO has Already made a Contractural Agreement with the Lord.
The Warnings about Falling Away from Faith...are TO: individuals WHO, have NOT Yet Committed TO a binding Contract With the Lord God.
The urgency For a man TO Commit...is Because:
The Contract Between a man Accepting the Lords Offering...MUST be Accomplished While the man IS ALIVE. And there is that little FACT, that a man does not know the second he shall no long BE ALIVE.
Jesus Offered all men, the Opportunity to Receive their Justification for Salvation NOW, any second of any day, and that Offering has stood to every man for over 2.000 years.
You preach, you keep running the race, AS IF, you are still waiting to the End of your natural life TO SEE, "IF" you have "accomplished" living a natural life, acceptable to God, to Justify Him "giving" you Salvation.
(You appear to be "hoping" for, Salvation),
Whereas a man, IN Christ, does not HOPE For, what Christ Offered, and the man, chose to Receive, Once and Forever.
It is not Boasting to claim to have Received Salvation.
Boasting would be a man claiming to TO Have AND "keeping" his Received Salvation...by his own power and efforts of WORKS.
The Fact IS:
The Keeping of a man's Received Salvation, IS solely BY the indwelling POWER "OF GOD".
And the "WORKS" of a man, DO NOT, "GET or KEEP" a man's salvation.
WORKS sole purpose are TO Glorify God.
And "WORKS" that DO, "Glorify God", are Rewarded.
And "WORKS" that DO NOT, Glorify God, shall be burned.
You have to wonder, HOW a man, "not having receivED Salvation"... Can DO WORKS to Glorify God.
OSAS - yes.
Once I Heartfully accepted The Lords Offering,
(WHICH by my Freewill, I did),
I Trust the Lord IS Faithful and His Word is True, and Forever, He and I shall be yoked together.
Glory to God,
Taken
Your reply is based completely on the mistranslated words believe, believer, and believing. This mistranslation changes the object of Faith from God Himself, a real living person, to God's word and promises. Huge difference!