What do you consider "belief" to be? When you "believe" in Jesus but don't have certainity is that a contradiction to you? How does faith and belief intertwine to you?
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ScottA
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"Belief" is the mechanism that forces us to gravitate toward who we are from--whose seed--our father the devil, or our Father in heaven. We walk out what we believe, thereby giving witness for or against ourselves before the Judgement. This is our freewill.
Even so, there are those who [actually] know what is true from God--"His servants the prophets", that those who would believe have a firm foundation on which to rest.
Deborah_
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Faith (= belief in the Christian sense) co-exists with doubt to some extent. Because if we were 100% certain, we wouldn't need faith. You could say that the need for faith implies an element of uncertainty.
The crucial question is whether our faith is sufficient to produce appropriate action. One can, for example, decide to walk across a rickety bridge without being fully certain that it will bear one's weight - we just need to be sufficiently certain to accept an element of risk. Life is full of decisions such as this.
The crucial question is whether our faith is sufficient to produce appropriate action. One can, for example, decide to walk across a rickety bridge without being fully certain that it will bear one's weight - we just need to be sufficiently certain to accept an element of risk. Life is full of decisions such as this.
"Lord, I believe; help my unbelief." Believing in Jesus isn't exactly the same as saving faith in Him. Saving faith is believing He's the Son of God and the author of our salvation. It's having enough faith in Him to go to Him walking on the water at His command.
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One of my takeaways from a long-ago Bible study was that the Greek word pistis (and its verb cognate, pisteou), usually translated "belief" or "faith", can also be translated as TRUST.
TRUST is where faith and belief intertwine. Jesus is TRUSTworthy.
quietthinker
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Hebrews 11:1
'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.'
Faith is the resonating of one's spirit with the genuine desire to know the heart of God.
On the other hand, we (mankind) have the ability and permission to believe pigs fly. This is manifest in logic which produces dissonance in the heart.
Certainty isn't required in matters of faith. If we were certain it would be fact not faith. Faith by definition is belief in something not entirely known. We take on faith that what Jesus says is true even though we have no absolute certainty that it is. We believe it's true that's faith.
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