Did you notice that LOVE is greater than FAITH?
Institutional Christianity has made man's faith greater than God's love it appears to me. It agrees that God loves the world and sent Jesus to save it, but then adds that if a man does not place his faith in Christ he will be eternally lost....and most add eternally punished in hell.
So, according to that doctrine which is greater, God's love or man's faith?
God saves sinners because He loves them and He did so while they were still ungodly...
"You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation...for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 5:6-11; 6:23)
So what is the role of man's faith in Christ?
Well, man's faith has NO role in our salvation. It is Jesus Christs faith that saved us, our faith simply believes that He did so, and even that is a gift from God.
"Yet now, apart from law, a righteousness of God is manifest (being attested by the law and the prophets), yet a righteousness of God through Jesus Christ's faith, for all, and on all who are believing, for there is no distinction, for all sinned and are wanting of the glory of God. Being justified gratuitously in His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:21-24)
Our faith unlocks the HOPE (expectation) of life after death. God's LOVE will save all sinners because of His GRACE.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God...The last enemy to be destroyed is death...so that God may be All in all." (Ephesians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 15:26-28)