Faith as an imparted sacred content from GOD is the topic, today. A writer at “Yahoo! Answers Singapore” using the ID “Ben Smallwood” (Level 1 with 98 points, a member since 13 January 2014) posted the following first asked at Yahoo Answers United States:
Faith like a Mustard Seed?
If God says: if you have faith like a mustard seed you can move mountains... then does that mean that i have less faith then a mustard seed?
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Well what i mean is... i cant move mountains... so does that mean i dont even have the faith of a mustard seed?
So you guys think i'm taking this to literally then? Like the Mustard seed just shows something small and that this will grow until i can go through harder tasks (the mountains) as my faith grows :D?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (1st Peter 1: 3-9, KJV)
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“Ben Smallwood”, here are a few points based on the Bible that Christian believers also consider when speaking about faith:
(1.) Faith is part of the spirit content that exists within the full makeup of GOD. Faith itself consists of only faith, just like holiness consists only of holiness, and righteousness is made up of only righteousness. As a distinct aspect of divinity, faith is inseparable from holiness, righteousness and all the other aspects of sacred being that include forgiveness, gratitude, humility, longsuffering, love, truthfulness, wisdom, and wrath against sin. Faith is not found outside of Divine Person except as dispensations from the GODhead imparted to indwell created beings and living creatures.
(2.) Thinking in accordance with the flesh, many have asked GOD for greater and for more faith as though the human need for faith is a matter of how much faith or what amount of faith. It is more correct to understand that faith is dynamic and organic—that faith must act, and thereby, faith must grow as if itself a living person. Faith must be present and interact with all the other aspects of divinity within ones being. Thus, measurable dimensions and the size of ones faith are not significant. For a person’s faith to be known and seen as fruitful, there must be balance, completeness, maturity, and stability.
(3.) Faith is not the same as belief, confidence, trust or self-awareness. Those elements appear through the activity of the flesh that includes intellect, logic, and reason. The many operations of the flesh emerge from appetite (e.g., hunger, thirst, sexual cravings) and sense (e.g., hearing, seeing, tasting, touching) as well as emotional and mental process (e.g., fantasy, imagination, recall, discursive thought), and are not from the divine spirit.
There is far more to be said, properly shared, and spiritually understood. (For example, (4.) In the same way the fruit or product of an apple seed should be apples along with more apple seeds, the fruit and harvest from ones faith should be faith.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. (1st Corinthians 13: 12-13, KJV)
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