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Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason answers the question, "What is faith?" For more visit http://www.str.org.

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  • Faith is simply rejecting the 5 senses and accepting God's reality even though it is impossible for the 5 senses to accept....keep walking no matter what!!

  • Trust?? Trust in what?? Unsupported hearsay tales of fantasy and magic? - However you cut it, it is blind faith that irrational mythical stories are true.. To call it "gullibility" would be even more accurate than to call it "trust"!

    The author of John wrote bad propaganda - no more!

  • @Tobytrim Do you believe that Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, and Ghangis Khan existed?

  • @ChipArgyle

    Are you currently reading the bible? Is it really fair for one to completely reject Biblical testimony if one is seeking to understand the natural world? To embrace the contrary would suggest an irrationality on the part of the Atheist.

  • Well, this is interesting. A Christian is starting to see how ridiculous the concept of faith is, because without evidence, it IS blind. Thus, he's suggesting that Christians wordsmith it, put some spin on it, and change the term. I guess the good word isn't sticking so well anymore so they have to resort to marketing tactics.

    And once again, a Christian slams Commandment 9 into the ground to advance his beliefs.

  • He is combining faith and belief, they are two different things. Faith comes from God to the person via the Rhema of Christ (Rom 10:17) we then choose to trust Him or deny Him, you see this clearly in this verse:

    Rom 3:22 even the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ, toward all and upon all those who believe...

    Faith comes from God NOT from you, this has a subtle form of ignorance at best or at worst deception, but now you know the rest of the story.

  • Faith and love(works) are different things. Faith is simply "believing the testimony", "believing the promises", "hearing the [God's] voice behind you", "the conviction of things not seen". Faith IS intellectual acknowledgement.

  • Koukl says faith "isn't just an intellectual acknowledgement, it's an awareness of the truth of something and a willingness to act". He says faith is "active trust", not "intellectual acknowledgement". OK, so you and I have faith that Washington was the first president. Do we have to act on that faith? You and I believe that Russia exists. Do I have to go to Russia now in order to have real faith? No. Koukl has confused faith and acts/works. The Bible says there is faith, hope and love.

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