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Becky:
I wrote this a couple of days ago with no response. I'm wondering if I'm a nut job to be avoided, if no one noticed my post, if no one knew the answer, or if no one cared.   If someone resonds, I'd feel better.  Thanks

Speaking of "God is everything"...

I was reading and wondered what the definition of "faith" really was... I mean not only Bible definitions (Heb 11:1 etc) but deeper than that if there was one.

I looked up every scripture with the word faith in it.. i overanalyzed it, and looked at the greek and hebrew meanings..... and i really didn't get anywhere with the "knowledge".

While reading the Law of Moses more carefully I think the spirit hit me with it (by no work of my own, go figure!).... All I saw was how God said "I AM" ... Christ said "I am... the was the truth and the life... etc.

God is everything right? SO is Christ Faith? I know this could be old news to ya'll but I wanted some imput. I dont want to feel like I'm guessing on this... It makes sense though when I put the word Jesus in for Faith (as in Christ in you).

What do you think?  

Becky

ertsky:
i just did what i often do and plan to do more often

i typed faith into e-sword search field with KJV with strongs numbers

found greek word strongs number 4102 and did a search for every instance of that word in the new testament

within the first few verses i started to feel the living water flow.

i say to myself frank!!

never start with an idea and go to the scriptures !

start with the scriptures then listen for the idea !

God bless you Becky following the word faith through the new testament is dynamite!

f


Mat 9:28  And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Mat 9:29  Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Mat 9:30  And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
Mat 9:31  But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

Mar 9:24  And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

PS: 4100 4101 4102 4103 4104 are all fantastic and closely related !

orion77:
Becky, sorry I missed that first time around.  Faith is a good subject to talk about.  It is a gift from God, so noone can boast.  This is one thing He has shown me years ago.  The faith I have now goes way past, just a belief from hearing of the word, it's into spiritual sight.  As I have posted these verses many times, but they are important:


Job 42:1
Then Job answered Yahweh and said:

Job 42:2
I know that You can do all things, And no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

Job 42:3
Who is this who obscures counsel without knowledge? Wherefore I have professed ideas when I was not understanding, Things too marvelous for me, that I did not know.

Job 42:4
Hearken now, and I myself shall speak; I shall ask of you, and you inform Me.

Job 42:5
With the hearing of the ear I had heard of You, But now my eye sees You.

Job 42:6
Therefore I sink down and repent On soil and ashes.


Notice that Job was righteous in His eyes, before He let satan test him.  It was after the severe testing that Job replies with the above words.  This brought him to the point of true sight and higher spiritual faith.  This goes way beyond what the carnally minded perceive faith to be.  To the few in each generation that are judged while in this life, we all are taken to a point where Job was.  

Faith from God is different than human faith.  The gift of faith from God, makes Him a true spiritual reality, more real than the physical life we have now.  Past belief and into reality, when the Holy Spirit bears witness to us.

Hopefully more will join this thread.  Good subject.

God bless,

Gary

Becky:
Thanks all..

That's what I thought!

It's amazing to see the scriptures jump out at me like this!
Also it's crazy the way I tried so hard with no lead until "smack" it hit me..
Even looking at the greek meaning shows the perfection of Christ.

I broke down every verse and summed up what the verse was saying about "faith". Here is an sample of the list I composited (There of course are many many other verses): it went something like this:

Faith(and Christ):

heals (Mat 9:2)
makes whole (mat 9:22)
gives sight (mat 9:29)
the just live by (hab 2:9)
nothing impossible with (mat 17:20)
is the weightier matter of law (mat 23:23)
forviven by (mark 2:5)
strength in (acts 3:16)
full of (acts 6:5)
obedient to (acts 6:7)
continue in (acts 14:22)
purify hearts by (acts 15:9)
churches esablished in (acts 16:5)
inheritance sanctified by (acts 26:18)
receive grace and apostleship through (Romans 1:5)


Faith, like grace is seen often by the organized church as noun only.
It is so obviously a VERB TOO! SWEET!

it is action as "He is" (I AM)

Becky

Becky:
I'm not exactly looking for fast answers on this topic.. I'm just trying to digest and enjoy the process from reading and sharing in that with others discoveries. Iknow I saw some of this in rays/mikes etc letters but it didn't sink in then, ya know?  Now I'm enjoying the meal!

Now don't take this the wrong way but I got a chuckle out of it:

If Jesus is Faith
And Jesus is faithful,
then Jesus is in a sense full of himself?

(again, please dont take it the wrong way... I'm just sharing a pun.)

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