Author: Timothy SutterTimothy Sutter Date: Jul 29, 2007 15:09
redfox wrote:
> One of the most famous passages in the Bible is the passage found in
> Hebrews 11, which is used by many Christians, especially of the twenty
> first century variety to define the word "faith"
> The passage which is generally taken out of its historical context reads
> in its most famous King James Bible version:
> "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
> not seen"
however one translates it, the suggestion is
that such 'faith' is not 'blind' but that this
'faith' is a belief in what we -do- know
and have experience with.
we cite Abraham as having believed God.
we do not suggest that Abraham simply believed
that such a thing as God existsed, but that
Abraham had a direct relationship with this
God and believed what God transmitted to him.
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