RE: Question about "faith"
September 22, 2020 at 7:51 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2020 at 8:12 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(September 22, 2020 at 6:15 pm)Belacqua Wrote: This makes a lot of sense to me. I hadn't thought about it this way before.
Something interesting about faith that further dissociates it from belief is that, for the Christian, faith is an action. It is a behavior. Something you demonstrate by doing. You walk by faith. Take leaps of faith. Faith is enacted.
You demonstrate faith in a chair by sitting on it. You demonstrate faith in a surgeon by going under the knife. You demonstrate faith in your girlfriend by not looking through her phone. If you're Moses you demonstrate faith by stepping on the Red Sea. If you're Noah you show faith by building the ark.
Faith in the Christian sense doesn't sit stagnant in the mind. The very nature of trust requires action from us: faith can be shown. This embodied nature of faith, I think, demonstrates there's a difference between it and merely believing things.
"Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works." (James 2:18).