“By faith alone!” What does that mean?

First, faith itself must be defined.

Most people think they understand faith. I’m here to state that most are clueless about it, as was I.

Faith is one of those words that is so overused that we just place it in the junk drawer of language. Meaning, in the drawer where all the other ‘take it for grated words’ live.

People are satisfied with vagaries. All those things we ‘sorta get’, but under close inspection we either barely get or not at all.

God is one of those entities for sure, and religion whose job it is to bring clarity to God only further confuses with vague ideas expressed using intentionally difficult smoke and mirror language and poetry.

Which I just don’t fucking get because you’re doing the opposite of what God hoped you’d do.

Get to the f’ing point so that people can truly know what this is all about!

Is it any wonder that modern men and women are abandoning religion because it sounds so damn hokey!

God isn’t hokey! Our teaching of it is!

Back to faith, what is it?

Here’s what it’s not:

• Hope. Hope is hope, which means something wished for. Faith is not a substitute word for hope.
• Vague or wishy-washy anything. People use the word faith to mean ‘I sorta this’ or ‘I sorta that’. They use it like a smoke screen so that they don’t have to commit to a definite position or means of knowing and explaining. They just answer in the vaguest way possible, ‘I have faith’. Well, I’m here to say that’s not worth much at all. Empty words are just that, even when they sound righteous and passionate as ‘I have faith’. (So do gamblers…)

Faith is:

Your non-negotiable unequivocal knowledge of Gods existence, your connection to Him, the strength of your relationship with Him and the unquestioned power of all that comes with that.

BAM!! THAT’S what faith is!!

Faith is ‘I know’!

As always…

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Peace!!