As mentioned earlier, salvation comes by God’s grace through soul transformation by the Divine Love. However, the soul has to be opened in order to be receptive to the inflowing of the Love imparted by the Holy Spirit. In the book of Ephesians, we read:
Ephesians 2:8-9 – For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast.
Our pre-salvation state was one of “being dead in transgressions and sins, following the ways of this world, and gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts” (Ephesians 2:1-3). But we read in the following three verses (4-6): “Because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions —it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”
By grace, we were raised from our dead soul state through the Divine Love, given immortality, and eventually we’ll occupy the Celestial heavenly realms, where Jesus is the firstborn of many brethren and the loving and benevolent Master. This chapter explores where faith fits into the equation. Faith can mean several things, but true