Faith-The most popular question ask
of any Self Pro-Claimed Christian is –What Is your Faith and Why?
(1) How does Joh
(3) So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to
those who are of the household of the faith..—Gal. 6:10
Most Self Pro-Claimed Christians do not know in
full the Doctrines of the Church they go to Churches
Beliefs Updated.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, Eph
4:5
One God and Father of
all who is over all and through all and
in all. Eph 4:6
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Eph
6:16 in addition to all, taking up
the shield
of faith
with which
you will be able
to extinguish
all
the flaming
arrows
of the evil
one. Heb 11:1
Now faith is
the assurance
of things hoped
for, the conviction
of things
not seen.
11:2
For by it the men of old gained approval.
Faith
Definition: “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident
demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Heb. 11:1) True faith is not
credulity, that is, a readiness to believe something without sound evidence or
just because a person wants it to be so. Genuine faith requires basic or
fundamental knowledge, acquaintance with evidence, as well as heartfelt
appreciation of what that evidence indicates. Thus, although it is impossible
to have real faith without accurate knowledge, the Bible says that it is “with
the heart” that one exercises faith.—Rom 10:10.
Why do many people not have faith?
Faith is a
fruit of God’s spirit, and God gladly gives his spirit to those who seek it.
(Gal. 5:22; Luke 11:13) So persons without faith are not seeking that spirit,
or they are doing so for a wrong purpose or are resisting its operation in
their lives. Many things influence this:
Lack of accurate Bible
knowledge: The Bible is a product of God’s spirit, being inspired by
God. (2 Tim. 3:16, 17; 2 Sam. 23:2) Failure to study it hinders
any development of true faith. Although church members may have Bibles, if they
have been taught the ideas of men instead of the Word of God, they will lack
real faith in God and his purpose. To solve life’s problems, they will be
inclined to rely on their own ideas and those of other humans.—Compare Matthew
15:3-9.
Disillusionment with religion: Many
have been disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the churches of Christendom, which
claim to teach God’s Word but fail to live in harmony with what it says. Others
were adherents to a non-Christian religion, but they saw bad fruitage from its
practices or found that their beliefs did not really help them to cope with the
problems of life. Lacking accurate knowledge of the true God, such persons draw
away from everything related to religion.—Compare Romans 3:3, 4; Matthew
7:21-23.
Do not understand God’s
permission of wickedness: Most people do not understand
why God permits wickedness and so blame him for all the bad things that take
place. They do not realize that man’s inclination toward badness is not because
of God’s will but because of the sin of Adam. (Rom.
Lives dominated by fleshly
desires and viewpoints: Generally, persons who lack faith
that has real substance have devoted themselves to the pursuit of other interests.
Some may say that they believe the Bible but they may never have thoroughly
studied it or may have failed to meditate appreciatively on what they read, on
the reasons for it, and how it applies to everyday life. (Compare
1 Chronicles 28:9.) In some cases, they failed to nourish the faith they
had but, instead, allowed a desire for unrighteous things to dominate the
inclination of their heart so that they drew away from God and his ways.—Heb.
How can a person acquire faith?
Rom.
Rom.
Faith is
strengthened when a person acts on God’s promises and then sees the evidence of
God’s blessing on what he has done.—See Psalm 106:9-12.
Illustration: Perhaps you have a friend of whom
you would say: ‘I trust that man. I can count on him to keep his word; and I
know that if I have a problem, he will come to my help.’ It is not likely that you
would be saying that about anyone you met for the first time yesterday,
is it? He would have to be someone with whom you had long association, someone
who had proved his dependability time and again. It is similar with religious
faith. To have faith, you need to take time to get to know Jehovah and his way
of doing things.
Faith that there is a God
See pages 145-151,under the main
heading “God.”
Faith in the prospect of a righteous
new system of things
When a person becomes well acquainted with the record of
Jehovah’s dealings with his servants, he comes to share the viewpoint of
Joshua, who said: “You well know with all your hearts and with all your souls
that not one word out of all the good words that Jehovah your God has spoken to
you has failed. They have all come true for you. Not one word of them has
failed.”—Josh. 23:14.
The Bible’s promises of renewed health, resurrection from
the dead, and so forth, are fortified by the record of miracles performed by
Jesus Christ. These are not fables. Read the Gospel accounts and see the
evidence that they bear all the marks of historical authenticity. Geographical
locations are named; the names of contemporary secular rulers are given; more
than one eyewitness account has been preserved. Meditating on this evidence can
strengthen your faith in the Bible’s promises.
Go to the Kingdom Halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses and to their general conventions, and you can
then see for yourself evidence that application of Bible counsel transforms
lives, that it can make people honest and morally upright, that it can enable
people of all races and nationalities to live and work together in a spirit of
genuine brotherhood.
Are works really necessary if a
person has faith?
Jas.
2:17, 18, 21, 22, 26: “Faith, if
it does not have works, is dead in itself. Nevertheless, a certain one will say:
‘You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith apart from the works, and
I shall show you my faith by my works.’ Was not Abraham our father declared
righteous by works after he had offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? You
behold that his faith worked along with his works and by his works his faith
was perfected. Indeed, as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith
without works is dead.”
Illustration: A young man may court a young lady,
telling her that he loves her. But if he never asks her to marry him, is he
really demonstrating that his love is thorough? Likewise, works are a means of
demonstrating the genuineness of our faith and our love. If we do not obey God
we do not really love him or have faith in the rightness of his ways. (1 John
5:3, 4) But we cannot earn salvation no matter what works we do.
Eternal life is a gift from God through Jesus Christ, not payment for
our works.—Eph. 2:8, 9.
Eph
4:5
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
4:6
one God and Father of
all who is over all and through all and
in all
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Statement of Faith or Beliefs and agree
with it before becoming a member.
A Creed is a statement of belief—usually religious
belief—or faith.The word derives from
the Latin credo
for I believe.
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Christian creeds-1.1
Apostles' Creed--1.2
Other creeds--2
Islamic creeds 3 See also 4
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