Salvation is a word used by the Apostle Paul to describe our relationship with God. The word salvation is a word that implies rescue. By choosing to use this word, Paul is therefore describing a one-sided relationship. God is the rescuer and we are those who are rescued. Furthermore, Paul makes it crystal-clear that this one-sided relationship with God called salvation is the result of God’s own independent action. We bring nothing to it except our faith. “By grace you are saved, through faith,” Paul writes. “And that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should b...