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Believing in the primary tennets of Christianity is no gaurantee of anything; for there are many fine religious people who believe everything written in their particular catechism or creed but they have not 'saving faith.' Saving faith is different from believing in the primary tennets of Christianity and is the only kind of faith that saves.

If you believe such things- then you have faith, it logically follows. Faith is believeing and trusting- no matter what.

Oh I wish it was so easy. Saving faith, is the type of faith one has when the Spirit of Christ is in you. If you do not have the Spirit of Christ you are none of His. Pure mental ascent to Creeds, Confessions and Cathechisms with the intent of developing faith is sweet but it is as foolish as a scholar's parrot attempting to speak Greek. It looks great on the outside but there has been no change on the inside of the person. "What good would it do to change my way of living, if everything inside me stayed the same." (Barry McGuire)