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True faith is the incorruptible belief in God and His love for you. True belief, a firm solid belief. Belief built on a solid base such as a rock. Doubtless belief. One of the greatest struggles for the believer in God is that of having faith in God and all about God, including believing that you are worthy of being a person who God could love and want to help. It is this lack of faith which keeps us distant from God. But true faith is learnt over time. With faith comes trust - as your faith in God grows, then your trust in God grows. As your faith and trust grow so does your ability to learn and have faith and trust in the Holy Scriptures. Christians who follow God are considered to the "the faithful", those who follow the faith by the teachings of the Lord Jesus the Christ. Christians follow the "Christian Faith". A "creed", a formula for belief was used by those proclaiming to be followers of the Christian Faith. Examples are the Nicene Creed, or the Apostles Creed. Genesis chapter 15, verse 6
Faith opens a way for understanding, unbelief closes it - S Augustine. Hebrew chapter 11, verse 1
We must have faith in the Redeemer. Faith in Jesus the Christ, who the sinner rests upon for true Salvation. The art of science has faith a in the physical world in which it can
prove with physical experiments. The Christian Faith cannot be so proved
- faith is between you and God alone,
True faith in God must be volunteered and not forced. A mistake of the past was for people to try to force people to have faith in God. Some people were badly mistreated if they didn't believe in God or believed in God in a different way than what was termed the "official church". People must be nurtured into a new Belief System, force achieves nothing good. Martin Luther spoke of "Justification by faith alone. Psalm 89, verse 2
Faith is taking God at His word - Evans. The proper power of faith is to trust without evidence, not with evidence
- Ruskin.
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