The Hearsay Contract

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You have made a positive statement about hearsay, now if you will, please prove your statement.
Apophenia is correct in saying that salvation is by grace and grace alone, salvation is a gift as defined in scripture, it really doesn't matter how you define salvation the original definition set forth in scripture is the reference mark by which one must hold.

"Hearsay is information gathered by one person from another person concerning some event, condition, or thing of which the first person had no direct experience." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay

In the case of the contract of salvation, Christians rely on information that was provided to them by other people, specifically, the Bible, or "scripture". It is a fact that the majority of the authors of the new testament are unknown, so not only is the information second-hand, it comes from unknown sources (which were written well after the supposed death of Jesus, in any event).

Regardless of which definition of salvation you subscribe to, the information upon which you base your definition is hearsay - it is not information which you personally know to be correct, but which you have assumed to be correct because someone else said so.