The Importance of a True Knowledge of God
Interestingly, if you ask many people who say they don't "believe" in God to describe the God they don't believe in, it seems likely that we wouldn't believe in the God of their imaginations either. In other words, they don't have a factual knowledge of God, their beliefs are awry. So, no basis for faith.
A useful definition of faith: "faith is a disposition towards as object (eg. the one true God) that allows the object (God) to act on our behalf". Put heaps of faith in a gold-leaf statue of Buddha and see how much that statue can do for you, notwithstanding your huge faith in that object. But I suggest, try a little faith in the living, sovereign creator God... (after trying to get to know who He really is).
# posted by geoff @ 9:47 am
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