What is Faith?
What is Faith? How do we get it? Where does it come from?
I will demonstrate logically that everyone has and uses faith everyday all the time. Even atheistic evolutionists and secular scientists have and use faith. Faith is not only a Christian concept, designated for believers in GOD, but a mechanism of the human soul used to gather knowledge and decipher what one will believe as truth. People can have faith in the most absurd ideas. That is simply where they choose to place it.
Where does Faith come from? Romans 12:3 God has given every man a measure of faith. What is Faith? Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the Substance of things Hoped for and the Evidence of things not seen.
Faith is increased by what we hear and are taught: Romans 10:17 Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God.
The Greek word for Substance means: underlying reality behind anything, objective reality giving a firm guarantee and the basis for confidence or assurance ground for hope and foundation.
The Greek word for Evidence means: having been tried and tested for the purpose of proving, means of proof.
Using these definitions we can see that no one is exempt from using faith. For an example, Our basic common knowledge of life is done so byway of faith. When we were little babes we were taught what colors were, math, and what the animals were. All this new knowledge was taught to us by words that we heard. As a little child we’ve never seen or heard these things before. “Things not seen” Heb. 11:1. So we began to utilize the measure of faith God has given us at birth and began to build our knowledge based of what we believe to be truth.
So anything that you hope for and believe is real, anything you trust as reality is done so by faith. Even if you place your faith in a lie, you are still believing with confidence that what you trust is a reality.
For instance, Atheists who believe in the deceptive false science of Evolution, although we know there is absolutely no real scientific evidence to support this absurd world view, they place their unwavering Faith in it as an absolute truth. As a matter of fact it takes more faith for them to believe in Evolution than it does to believe that God created the world. There is no concrete evidence for evolution and an enormous amount to support Intelligent Design.
More examples to come later.
By Levi Price
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