Introduction

Chapter 1: Faith in Everyday Life and the Objective Bible

  • Biblical Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Caveat: Knowledge and Faith
  • Validity, Knowledge, and Truth
  • Some More Caveats
  • Some Conclusions

Chapter 2: Saving Faith

  • Objective: Knowledge That Is Outside the Person
  • The Subjective State of Regeneration (“Born-Again”)
  • Experience and Acquired Knowledge
  • Saving Faith as the Most Certain Knowledge That Can Be Known

Chapter 3: The Relevance of Saving Faith, Part I

  • What Is Truth?
  • Faith and Science
  • Conclusions

Chapter 4: The Relevance of Saving Faith, Part II

  • Faith and History
  • Epistemology
  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Sociology, Law, Government, and Economics
  • Faith Is Logical Deduction

Chapter 5: Why Christians Differ over Biblical Faith (Truth)

  • Spiritual Gifts
  • Church Teaching and Experience
  • Personality or Style of Thinking
  • Biblical Knowledge
  • Hermeneutics
  • Life Experience
  • Time of Conversion
  • Use of the Work of Others
  • Other Factors
  • The Imperfection of Faith and the Fall
  • How Can Imperfect Faith Save Anyone?

Chapter 6: Commentary on Some Key Verses about Faith

  • Hebrews 11:6
  • Hebrews 11:1
  • Hebrews 6:4-6
  • James 2:19
  • Galatians 2:20
  • Romans 12:3
  • Ephesians 6:16

Chapter 7: Faith and Practice

  • The Bent of the Life
  • Repentance
  • Continued Presence of Unbelief
  • Seasons of Unbelief

Chapter 8: What Difference Does a Right Understanding of Faith Make?

  • Praise of God
  • Rest and Assurance
  • Evangelism
  • Prayer
  • Use of Time

Chapter 9: Faith Applied to Historical Doctrines of the Church

  • Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism
  • Arminianism and Calvinism: Five Points of Each
  • Transition to Pietism

Chapter 10: Faith: A Gift of God

  • The Logical Argument

Chapter 11: Kinds and Degrees of Faith (final chapter)

  • Temporary Faith
  • Faith to Move Mountains (Miraculous Faith)
  • Historical Faith
  • Cheerfulness
  • Degrees of Faith

Chapter 12: Additional Comments

  • Child-like Faith