Faith is believing beyond what we can see or feel. Rather, it is means to believe with the heart, our spirit, our inward man. Faith is a lot more powerful than a fleeting emotion, without any stability, but is enticed and motivated by the winds of change which blow constantly in divers directions, never seeming to obtain its feet on solid ground.
Indeed, the person who decides to live by the notion that, "When it feels right, it must certanly be right" and "If it feels good, take action", Alive Christians can testify that the live influenced by every feeling which a person experiences is likely to be full of much misery, regret and decay. Feelings are not always reliable. They should be enjoyed, however, not depended upon.
Christianity isn't in relation to how exactly we feel. It is stable and reliable. It's by faith. It is believing in God and what He says, beyond how things appear. This is actually the next of the six foundational teachings of Christianity. We ought to have faith toward God and we must develop faith in God.
No intelligent person, who desires to know truth will deny that there surely is a God. Even creation itself reveals that God exists. The planet is too well put together and the universe too magnificent and vast for just about any real thinking person to doubt that the Being of Enormous Power, Wisdom, Intelligence and Might created it. This Being is God. Some call Him the Higher Power. Indeed He is. He is the One Who made everything and therefore He is the Anyone to Whom all must give account.
The initial of the Doctrines of the Christian Faith is Repentance from Dead Works. This means to change from sin and all religious works which cannot offer a person right-standing with the Creator of the universe, a Righteous and Holy God. The next phase is to have faith in God and in what He has been doing to create us back again to Himself.
Did I say, "bring us back"? Indeed Used to do, for something happened which had separated us from our God. The story are available in the initial Book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis. Almighty God had created man in His image and after His likeness. Man was created for the purpose of fellowshipping with God. Man had right-standing with God. He was clean, innocent, and holy. God made man like Himself and for Himself. Man however decided to go against God, being tempted by an angel, a fallen angel who did not want to submit himself to the One Who made him. We in Christianity call him the devil. He is wicked, evil and saturated in lies and deceptions.
He tempted man and mankind succumbed to that tempter. When the first man, Adam, and his wife, listened to and obeyed God's enemy, the fallen angel, they fell from their right-standing with God. These were now sinners, and thus these were in sin and incapable of helping themselves get out of it. It's this that the phrase in the Bible, "dead in sin" means. (Ephesians 2:1-3)
This sinful nature they passed down, through birth, to any or all of humanity. (Romans 5:12, The Bible). All of us came into this world with a nature of sin. It is said that man is inherently good. Based on the teachings of the Bible, this is simply not so. Man is inherently evil, until he repents and turns to God in faith that what God has provided for man can set us free and bring us back to right-standing with Himself.
God, in seeing man-kind's situation determined, as a result of His great passion for us, to help us. We could not help ourselves. So God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ to die for all of us and shed His blood to scrub away our sinful nature, bringing us once again into right-standing with God as His very children.
Here is the real essence of faith toward God. We ought to feel that God sent His Son to die for our sins. We must feel that Jesus Christ paid the purchase price for the sins and that God raised Him from the dead. We must believe that people is now able to arrive at God and be His children, obtaining a righteous position with Him yet again, not on the foundation of what we have done, but alternatively on the cornerstone of what He's done for us in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And we ought to receive God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord and personal Savior.
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