What Is The Meaning Of Faith

The words faith and belief are often used interchangeably in everyday conversation that they are assumed to have the same meaning, but they do not.
This error is the reasons many people have difficulty fully understanding the meaning of faith, fail to connect with God in spirit, and use the power of faith to solve the problems in their lives.
To believe is to have confidence in a truth based on physical or experiential evidence; whereas to have faith is to have confidence in a truth based on its spiritual evidence.
With this definition of faith in mind, we can now understand the meaning of faith as given in Hebrew 11:1, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen."
This meaning of faith defines faith as a spiritual activity because hope, which is the object of faith has no physical form in itself; it is merely the expectation that we will have what we need or desire.
Thus, when faith calls upon us to possess the substance of what has not yet acquired a physical form, or to see evidence of God who is a spirit and cannot be seen, it is asking us to perform a spiritual act.
And since the physical person cannot see what is spiritual, he cannot possess the substance of what has not yet acquired a physical form, nor can he possess the spiritual evidence that God exists: this is why he has difficulty understanding the meaning of faith.
The soul, being a spiritual entity, is the only part of the human personality able to possess both the substance of things hoped for, and the spiritual evidence that God exists.
Consequently, the soul alone is capable of seeing God, as it alone has access to the spiritual evidence that allows us to understand the meaning of faith.
But the physical person on his own cannot understand the meaning of faith, as he has no means of seeing the substance of things hoped for, or the spiritual evidence of things he cannot see. In other words, the physical person cannot see God.
This is the reason many people have difficulty with understanding the meaning of faith, and as a result difficulty believing that God exist. They do not actively involve their souls in the worship of God, and so fail to obtain the spiritual evidence needed to sustain their belief in God.
Since a belief in God is justified by hope, and hope is justified by faith, from which comes the substance of what we hope for and the spiritual evidence of what we do not see, there can be no true belief in God without fully understanding the meaning of faith.
By faith your soul is purified by the Holy Spirit to receive spiritual revelations directly from God, pertaining to the substance of the things you hope for, and evidence of the existence of God.. Read more about Spiritual Revelations.

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