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1 | What does the word"believe"involve | John 3:16 | Lionstrong | 226844 | ||
"scriptural faith involves trust upon the work of Christ and not merely acceptance of the doctrines of the work of Christ." I guess I don't know what you mean by trust. If I assent to (sorry for the previous misspellings) and understand that Jesus is the Son of God, the secon Person of the Trinity; if I assent to and understand that God raised Him from the dead after He paid the believer's debt on the cross; if I assent to and understand that, "...he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."(John 5:24), how am I not trusting in the work of Christ? |
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2 | What does the word"believe"involve | John 3:16 | Beja | 226846 | ||
Lionstrong, First, let me be clear that I am not suggesting that you are not trusting Christ. So I'm going to proceed as if that is more of a universal question in scope, more along the lines of "how would one not be trusting Christ. This is the question which drives home the point, I hope. On the day in which we shall all stand before God to receive eternal rewards or eternal punishments, what is it that you are trusting is going to cause God to receive you favorably on that day? Now I readily grant that this is a fine line. If somebody truely understands the teachings of Christ rightly then the logical implication is to trust the substitionary work of Christ for our acceptance. But rest assured, every man who has hopes of heaven hopes for heaven based on some grounds. Whatever these grounds are is what the man is trusting in, or placing his faith in. That is the thing the man is "believing in" in terms of how the new testament speaks. But trusting and mentally assenting to these things ought to all go together. In Christ, Beja |
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3 | What does the word"believe"involve | John 3:16 | Lionstrong | 226848 | ||
What do you mean by trust, Beja? | ||||||
4 | What does the word"believe"involve | John 3:16 | Beja | 226850 | ||
Lionstrong, I'll try to say that in different ways. What are you banking on to cause you to be spared in the day of judgement? What are you relying on? Hoping upon? Counting on? I do think there is a place for a weak faith. In other words, I would not cast doubt upon the faith of a man that said to me, "I do not know with certainty my fate, but my only hope for acceptance is in Christ Jesus." I would try to use the promises of scripture to move the man from such a small faith unto a firm assurance of his stake in Christ, but I do not require certain assurance. I require our hope to be exclusively in Christ Jesus and his attoning work, I do not requre that trust to be mighty enough to banish all fearful thoughts. "Nothing in my hands I bring, only to the cross I cling." Let that be our hope for the day of judgement and we will do well. So in other words, I do not mean complete assurance by the word "trust." I simply mean that we understand the doctrines of the work of Christ for the proper purpose. We believe the attoning work of Christ, and we through faith take it as our hope for that fearful day of judgement. That I believe is faith. I hope some part of this helped to clarify. In Christ, Beja |
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