What Is Justifying Faith?

Justifying (or saving) faith is the act of a sinner, from his heart, resting his soul upon Christ and his finished work, and thus receiving the imputed righteousness of Christ.1 By my use of ‘act’, I do not imply that the sinner can exercise saving faith by his own power or will. Not at all. As Jesus said: ‘No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him... No one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my Father’ (John 6:44,65). Man