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What is the difference between faith and belief?

Answered by . May 1, 2010 - 6:03 am

There is no difference between ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ — they are the same thing. Although the words are different in English, the New Testament, for example, only has one family of words (from the root peithō (Strong’s #3982) in Greek) that are translated as both ‘faith’ and ‘belief’. Part of the reason why the Greek […]

What is faith?

Answered by . December 18, 2009 - 11:23 pm

In essence, faith is trusting someone or something. In Gen. 15 God tells Abram that he will give him a child and that Abram’s descendants will grow in number to become a nation: …the word of the Lord came to him: “…your very own son shall be your heir.” And he brought him outside and […]

How can we be sure that the Bible is true?

Answered by . December 17, 2009 - 8:50 am 1

This is a quite complicated question, not least because of the very nature of the book. The Bible is often described as a library of books and this is very true. It was written over a period of about 1500 years with around 40 different authors making contributions. So to answer the question properly we […]

What is the difference between faith and hope?

Answered by . November 14, 2009 - 9:11 pm 8

Well, Hebrews 11:1 says Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. So, faith is the next step up from hope: being really sure. You can certainly hope for things without being sure they will come to pass, but having faith means being sure. (Bit […]

Can we really move mountains?

Answered by . August 6, 2009 - 9:54 pm

Jesus said (Matthew 17:20) For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” Jesus is emphasising the importance and power of faith more than the need […]