What is Faith?

Bible's Definition: 

• "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for; The evidence of things unseen."  Hebrews 11:1

A Few Scriptures on Faith: 

• Matt 21:21-22    21. "Verely I say unto you, if ye have faith and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree,  but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be cast into the see: it shall be done. 22. And all things, whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
• Romans 10:17 "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
• 2 Cor. 2:5 "For we walk by faith, not by sight."
• 1 Cor. 2:5 "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."
• Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for; The evidence of things unseen." 

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Examples

•  Example: Say you go to sit on a chair, well you just know that it is going to hold you up. What if it doesn't hold you up? Have you ever thought that? Most likely someone isn't going to be thinking, "will this chair hold me up?" They just know it will. And to even go further, they actually sit down in the chair because they knew without a doubt that it was going to hold them up.

That is kinda like what faith is, we know without a doubt that God will do something. The only thing to this example is that you might be thinking "But they sit down in the chair without a doubt that the chair will hold them up, because they see dozens of people being held up by chairs everyday and they've never see a chair fail and that we've maybe never seen things happen because of faith. But here's the thing...read Romans 10:17,  "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." And that is how we get faith. By reading the Bible, it tells tons of miraculas stories of what God can do, the more we've seen it done in the Bible, the more we believe and have faith. And the more we see chairs hold people up, the less we're going to have to think before we sit down, "Will this chair hold me up?"

Something that gets me is that we always put our trust in chairs (the man made, that can fail), and yet we seldom put our trust in God, our creator. (The one who can't fail)

• Here's another example: Say a guy goes to the doctor and the doctor says that he has cancer and that there's no way that this cancer will go away because it's too bad now. Well this guy believes that God is more powerful than what man can understand, (1 Cor. 2:5) And so he prays to God for God to heal him and then believes that He will be healed,  and God heals him.

 

• Analogy :  Remember one of the Indiana Jones' movies, when there was this cliff and Indiana had to somehow get to the other side even though he saw nothing to walk on to get there, and yet even though from what it looked like there was no way possible of getting over there and that he would fall, he still stepped out and sure enough there was a board that was there to walk on, but it was invisible. Not saying to walk off a cliff, this is only an analogy. Plus, God gave us common sense and a brain to use and to be wise. But that is how I think of it, kind of like this.