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ON
SCRIPTURE From The
principal reason for the New Testament
emphasis on faith is this: a definite
act of faith is required to believe
that the man known as Jesus of Nazareth
is, in fact, the promised Messiah
(Christ) whose coming had been
prophesied hundreds of years
before. Faith
is nothing short of putting one's trust
in the person of Jesus, in the truth of
His teaching, and in the redemptive
work He accomplished on the
cross. To
put one's faith in Jesus (believing Him
to be the Christ) is synonymous with
becoming His disciple. It involves
staking one's entire life and future on
what the Scriptures declare about
Him. Biblical
faith is not to be confused with a mere
intellectual assent to the doctrinal
teachings of Christianity, though that
is obviously necessary. Instead,
biblical faith issues forth in a
radical and total commitment to Jesus
Christ as the Lord (master) of one's
life. --
Adapted from The New
Compact Bible
Dictionary
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Georgia.
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WINTER
2006
A
word from the Word:
'Faith'The
word "faith," and its verb form "to
believe," occur only about 30 times in
the entire Old Testament. Indeed, what
we find in the Old Testament is not so
much a doctrine
of faith, as
examples
of it (see the list of Old Testament
heroes of faith in Hebrews
11).
In
contrast, the New Testament uses the
word "faith" (or "believe") almost 500
times!
