a gift?” Faith is a gift of God. Such qualities as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control were called by Paul “the fruit of the spirit” (Gal 5:22). They are more than normal human attributes. James emphasized the fact that faith as a gift must evolve into faith as action, and the writer to the Hebrews stressed the action involved. He agreed with James that “faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead” (Jas 2:17). Faith is paradoxical. On the