book excerpt
The concept of “unbelief†is misunderstood. It is not a vacuum of belief. In fact all people have belief. The problem is they believe in the wrong things. They “adhere to, cleave to, trust in, have faith in, and rely on†what their education has indoctrinated them towards, what they see in the mirror, what their bodies tell them through their senses, what their (or others’) past experiences say is true, what the media informs them concerning a subject, how matters customarily transpire, what their doctor’s report says, etc. Every person has faith and demonstrates it many times every day. But the object of a true believer’s faith is different from that of the world.
A true believer is so convinced in his inner man that God the Father’s revelation of Himself in the person of God the Son, Jesus Christ, is so trustworthy that, if every other evidence testifies against God’s word, they nevertheless stand on the Bible and formulate their decisions, choices, words, and actions on that word’s reliability. If it’s true, it’s always true.
Not surprisingly, the world (those outside of faith in the God of the Bible), does not understand “faith.†They think faith is merely how one deals with a situation which defies explanation. They think when evidence, logic, and good sense are inadequate to comfort the soul, one looks to faith. The world therefore interprets faith as mystical, nonsensical, and blind. But such a view is ignorance on their part.
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