Faith
B1
Defined
C1
I define faith as believing God.
C2
Bible verses
D1 Jonah 3:5 CSB Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They
proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of
them to the least.
D2 Romans 4:3 CSB For what does the Scripture say? Abraham
believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.
(Genesis 15:6)
D3 Romans 11:30
WEL For
just as in times past you refused to believe God, yet now you have
received mercy through their disobedience.
D4
Psalm 78:20-22 NLT Yes,
he can strike a rock so water gushes out, but he can't give his
people bread and meat." 21 When the LORD heard them, he was
furious. The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob. Yes, his anger
rose against Israel, 22 for they did not believe God or trust him to
care for them.
D5
John 3:18 WEL The
one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not
believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.
B2 Hebrews 11 is the faith chapter. What faith is. Examples of
brothers and sisters in faith. They show their faith by what they do.
We do what we really believe. It is not just what we say we believe.
Classes of faith
(from my feeble mind)
B1 Blind faith
C1 Blind faith is the faith where there is no reason to believe
something other than what someone says of writes. An example might be
I might someone whom I have never met before. This person tells me
that they have 3 earned doctorate degrees. This person tells me
something he/she has learned. I believe this person explicitly. I
have never met them before. I do not know if they have any degrees.
They give no reasons or logic to support their statement. I just
believe it. This is blind faith. We all must have a little skepticism
to test what someone claims.
C2 The common example: Too many still mention God’s command to
Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. They claim this was blind faith.
C3 But
D1 Abraham had many times believed God. Always it was the best choice
to make.
E1 Genesis 12 Leave Haran:
F1 Genesis 12:1-4 NIV The LORD had said to Abram, "Go from
your country, your people and your father's household to the land I
will show you. 2 "I will make you into a great nation, and I
will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a
blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you
I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him.
Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
F2 The rest of the chapter and following chapters show how God
blessed Abraham.
E2 Genesis 15 Prediction of a son who will be the heir:
F1 Genesis 15:1-6 NIV After this, the word of the LORD came to
Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield,
your very great reward." 2 But Abram said, "Sovereign LORD,
what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will
inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 And Abram said,
"You have given me no children; so a servant in my household
will be my heir." 4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This
man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood
will be your heir." 5 He took him outside and said, "Look
up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can
count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring
be." 6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as
righteousness.
F2 Prediction of a son in about one year: Genesis 18:10 NIV Then one
of them said, "I will surely return to you about this time next
year, and Sarah your wife will have a son." Now Sarah was
listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
F3 Prediction fulfilled: Genesis 21:1-3 NIV Now the LORD was
gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he
had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in
his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave
the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.
E3 Genesis 18 Prediction of judgment:
F1 Genesis 18:1, 20-23 NIV The LORD appeared to Abraham near the
great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent
in the heat of the day. ... 20 Then the LORD said, "The outcry
against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21
that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the
outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know." 22 The men
turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing
before the LORD. 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will
you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
F2 Prediction fulfilled: Genesis
19:28-29 NIV He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from
the land, like smoke from a furnace. 29 So when God destroyed the
cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of
the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
E4 Genesis The test:
F1 Genesis 22:1-2, 8, 10, 13 NIV Some time later God tested
Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am,"
he replied. 2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom
you love--Isaac--and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there
as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you." ... 8
Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the
burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.
... 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his
son. ... 13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram
caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it
as a burnt offering instead of his son.
F2 Isaac was delivered by a substitute.
D2 So it was reasonable for Abrahma to believe God in Genesis 22.
Abraham had had many dealings with God. God proved faithful. What God
predicted about Isaac being the heir came true. If Isaac was to die,
then God would prove to be a liar or too weak. Isaac lived. Further,
we know from Hebrews 11 that Abraham couldn’t understand this
command but thought that God would raise Isaac from the dead. Hebrews
11:17-19 NIV By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac
as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to
sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him,
"It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."
19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a
manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.
C4 Some articles:
D2 Christian
Faith Is Not Blind Belief (Roman Catholic)
B2 Reasonable faith—is a faith that the person mentioned about
might have some proof of their degrees or perhaps, we have met them
before. Still, we need a little skepticism to see if they really have
these degrees and need more than a little, simple support for their
statements. We simply must have some evidence.
C1 Personally, I look to Jesus as the foundation.
D1 It is reasonable that He existed. See here
(also read the comments as there is much more information there) and
here
(PDF) for examples.
D2 It is reasonable that what is written about Him is true. See here
and here
and here
(book) for examples.
D3 It is reasonable that what He said was true.
C2 The Gospel chain
of custody as presented by J. Warner Wallace. It is also here.
C3 Some examples of how others twist meaning into Jesus’s words.
D1 This is from a rebuttal
to a debate by atheist Richard Carrier in the David Marshall v.
Richard Carrier debate.
D2 Words of the Lord Jesus:
E1 Matthew 26:60-61 NLT But even though they found many who agreed
to give false witness, they could not use anyone's testimony.
Finally, two men came forward 61 who declared, "This man said,
'I am able to destroy the Temple of God and rebuild it in three days.
E2 John 2:19-21 NLT "All right," Jesus replied. "Destroy
this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 20 "What!"
they exclaimed. "It has taken forty-six years to build this
Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?" 21 But when Jesus
said "this temple," he meant his own body.
C4 Some other sources (I don’t necessary agree with all they teach.
Always be a Berean).
D2 The
Evidence for Christianity by William Lane Craig
Truth
is reality.
Many
people have conversed with spiritual beings. How can we know which
one is God, the true God? I start with the man Jesus and his
existence on earth.
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