Which comes first ? Faith in Jesus Christ ? or Faith from Jesus Christ ?

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Please share why you so state.

Thank your for all sincere answers !

Love, peace and progress in Spirit and in Father-Son Truth !
 
Jesus came before both.

Jesus says to believe in Him for His free gift of eternal life in heaven, and you have it. That easy! John 6:47! :D JESUS is God and Savior

Don't complicate things. :)
 
The lack of a properly functioning brain precedes both!
 
There is no reason to think Jesus was the son of a divine creator.
 
I like this question. I think we learn faith because of the faithfulness of God has as seen as He sent His Son so that we might have eternity with Him by Faith in the good news. This is similar to John's statement of love, "This is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His son to be the propitiation for us."
 
I would tend toward the Faith in Jesus Christ due to the fact that the entire old testament prophesized the coming of the Christ. And therefore one would have to have Faith in his coming before He came. And once He did come would be the Faith from Jesus Christ in what He did to establish Himself.
 
Ephesians 1:4 "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight"



I am claiming that the Bible's teaching about God choosing us to be saved is one of its foundational truths. John Reisinger had this experience: "A man once handed me a 200 page book on the subject of predestination. The author's first statement was, 'Predestination is like this: A train company chooses to send a train from Pittsburgh to Chicago. That train is pre-destined to arrive a Chicago at a given time. The train company will guarantee you this, that since the train is pre-destined to arrive at Chicago you too will be predestined or guaranteed to arrive at Chicago if only you would be willing to get on the train. God's predestination is just the same. If you will only 'accept Christ with your free will' then God will guarantee you will be secure and you will get to heaven. Once you 'get on the train of grace' you are eternally secure and predestined to get to heaven, but you have to make choice and climb on board." (John G. Reisinger, "Sound of Grace," Volume 2. Number 8, p.2). In other words, the man believed that it was the redemption of sinners in general that had been predestined, but each individual had to make a personal choice of benefiting from that redemption or refusing it. That personal choice was not a result of the preceding divine choice.
 
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