Even if faith is a work or an act of the will, it's not the kind of work that the Apostle Paul was talking about when he contrasts faith and works for salvation. The works are works of the Law. And the law is not of faith but must be carried out in order to justify someone. The contrast is between the works of the Law and faith in Christ for justification. It's not between one kind of faith in Christ (such that includes the will) and another kind of faith in Christ (that doesn't include the will). We are justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law.
"10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." 11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith." 12 Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them." Galatians 3:10-12
"knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified." Galatians 2:16
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