RE: Christian "faith" vs. plain "faith"
March 25, 2015 at 10:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2015 at 10:29 pm by watchamadoodle.)
(March 25, 2015 at 9:31 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: There are degrees of faith. A biblical example would be Jesus being persuaded to go to someone house in order to heal them. Meanwhile a Roman centurion who realized the concept of authority, knew Jesus could Just "order" the healing to be done, no need to actually go to the house. Hence why his faith was greater.Sometimes I wonder if the born-again Christian theology is recycled Gnosticism. The Gnostic Christians believed that knowing the truth would resurrect them to heaven after death.
It seems that this might be part of the problem with the Christian definition of "faith". Christians use faith in Christianity/Jesus as the key to heaven.
The epistle of James has a more practical definition of "faith" that connects it with decision making. (Of course "faith" is a result of experiences too. A person can't simply decide to have faith. I'm not sure if James covers that or not.)
