Happy Riches, answers question by Anonymous
Faith is the evidence of things hope for; yet many people have such a distorted idea of faith that they have no hope.
What hope is there for eternal meaning if we are merely born to die. Atheists have no hope.
Does this mean people who believe in gods have any hope? Not if those gods are made from human hands. Nor is there any hope if those gods are the product of human imagination, or vain reasoning.
How often do people demonstrate their ignorance as they dismiss faith? Frequently! Yet they use faith every day to achieve their own goals.
What would you call a person who has a tool but doesn’t how to use it?
Definitions are extremely important if we are to possess knowledge.
For instance, when we define virtual money, we have to define the word “virtual” and the word “money”. We do not say that money is of no value. We say that because the money is virtual—not real—it is of no value.
Even though faith is unseen, we do not say that faith is virtual and therefore it is not real. To do so is absurd. Just as it is absurd for anyone having looked into a mirror, and having fallen in love with the image that reflects back, buys the mirror to get married. Yet besotted by a delusion of similar magnitude, this is the way people talk about faith. Really, it is incredible the degree of ignorance that is found on many forums on the internet. Yet these people will claim all manner of qualification, not recognizing that all they are doing is telling the world how ignorant they are when it comes to understanding something as basic as faith.
Ever wonder why the Bible states that those who reject the Creator God are fools?
The Bible teaches that faith that is not active is dead—not faith at all. What this means is that unless you have faith to overcome death, you are already dead, even though you might think you are alive.
When it comes to “hope”, the Bible teaches that this is something that is not seen, because nobody hopes for that which is not seen. In the context of being able to physically see a thing, people only hope for what they cannot see. If you cannot see what you desire, you do not have it.
- For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? (Romans 8:24)
The text says that in this hope we are saved. Nothing about faith there at all. This is because faith is the assurance of that which is hoped for. Faith therefore is something that is real. Faith is not a virtual reality. Faith is that assurance of true reality.
- Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
Just because you cannot see everything that exists, this does not mean the things, which you cannot see, do not exist. But if you are like the many ignorant people you make absurd claims and demonstrate that you are nothing but a pompous, self-righteous, ignoramus, you will claim that just because you cannot see the Infinite Creator God, within Whom we live and move and have our being, He does not exist. Whereas, if you are humble, you will say, the Creator exists, I really need to know Him, as I have no eternal hope because death has got my number.
In the hope that the Lord God might hear your call, you will reach out to Him. But you will only do this if you have the faith that the Creator exists and the man-made fairies are really tales about things that cannot be proven, because nobody can testify to anything other than what they actually know themselves to be true from personal experience.
This is why we read that faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. But unless you are convinced that there has to be a better hope other than being born to die and having to suffer in between the two events, you will not have the faith to reach out to God in the hope that He will respond to you.
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