If the Christian faith were nothing but a dead adherence to certain mysterious doctrines as true, if a person could have the Christian faith and remain in his sins, then we could understand why many people think it makes no difference whether one's faith is Christian or Jewish or heathen or Turkish. But the true faith, to which the Holy Scripture attributes salvation, is something completely different. This faith has such great power that the person who carries it in his heart is completely changed by it. He becomes a new person, who leads a truly pious life. True faith works what nothing else in the world can work in a person. -- C. F. W. Walther, *God Grant It!* p. 873
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