It is reported that, when asked to define faith, a little boy in Sunday school responded, “Believing what you know isn’t true.” Many of the “new atheists” place faith against science and evidence. There is much confusion today over the nature of faith. For example, the God of the Bible is triune, so true faith in God must accept the deity and personality of the Son and the Holy Spirit as well as the Father. For faith in God to be genuine, it must be based on the genuine God. Much “religion” does exactly this, but any religion not based on the Bible is a designer religion with a designer god. If we do not accept God as He is, then we are putting our faith in a false god of our own making. We are not allowed to accept the attributes of God that we prefer and reject the ones we don’t. For faith in God to be genuine, we must accept Him as He has revealed Himself in Scripture. However, even a faith in God that motivates us to action is not enough. Faith that does not result in action is a dead faith, not true faith (James 2:26). As James 2:19 explains, the demons believe in God’s existence as well.Īfter acknowledging that God exists, the second element of faith in God is commitment. However, simply believing that God exists is not enough. The first is believing that He actually exists. Faith in God involves an intellectual assent to the facts concerning God and a life-changing reliance on those facts.įaith in God has several components. Faith in God is trust in Him, based on a true understanding of who He is, as revealed in the Bible.
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