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Faith is ...
Hebrews 11 starts with a kind of working definition of faith.
After reading it and the stories of faith that follow it becomes clear that faith is about believing and trusting. Believing things that may seem incredible and trusting the one who reveals the incredible things.
Faith also has a very strong connection to fidelity; keeping faith, remaining true to one's convictions even under pressure and even when one must suffer because one has expressed faith in someone or something that others want to stop and will persecute to try to stop it.
One would think of a person as faithless if they broke a promise, a trust, a commitment, especially one that is important.
Faith also has content, the Christian faith has a great deal of content. One is faithless when the content of faith is emptied and something contrary is put in its place.
So, is faith the same as knowing? is faith the same as certainty?
How do you treat doubt and uncertainty and what do you do with errors and departures from the received faith of the church?
Hebrews 11 starts with a kind of working definition of faith.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
Hebrews 11:1After reading it and the stories of faith that follow it becomes clear that faith is about believing and trusting. Believing things that may seem incredible and trusting the one who reveals the incredible things.
Faith also has a very strong connection to fidelity; keeping faith, remaining true to one's convictions even under pressure and even when one must suffer because one has expressed faith in someone or something that others want to stop and will persecute to try to stop it.
One would think of a person as faithless if they broke a promise, a trust, a commitment, especially one that is important.
Faith also has content, the Christian faith has a great deal of content. One is faithless when the content of faith is emptied and something contrary is put in its place.
So, is faith the same as knowing? is faith the same as certainty?
How do you treat doubt and uncertainty and what do you do with errors and departures from the received faith of the church?