Faith is the revealed knowledge of God Isaiah 53:11& Romans 5:1. It's not ones 'believing', which is done based on the whatever knowledge is presented. That's why Hebrews 11:1 calls it evidence; that's a definition statement.
@cnault3244 Says:
"What is faith? And why everyone has it!"
Sure, and there are different types of faith. You can:
1) have faith that your spouse is not cheating on you
or
2) faith that your car, which you maintain and keep fueled up will start when you turn the ignition key
or
3) have faith that a deity you cannot see (and that you have no evidence for) exists
Numbers 1 & 2 are examples of faith based on something that exists and that you could demonstrate exist.
Number 3 is religious faith, which is based on a belief that something exists.
As an example, I will use a chair to present both these types of faith.
Non-religious faith:
- you enter a room and see a chair
- having encountered them before, you know what a chair is and what the purpose of a chair is
- having sat on chairs before, you make a quick examination of this chair, decide it looks sturdy, and you have faith the chair will support you
- you sit on the chair
- the chair had an unseen flaw, and when you sit on the chair it collapses under you
- you decide that the chair had something wrong with it and that flaw caused the collapse
- you do not think the chair collapsed because your faith was weak
Religious faith:
- you have never seen a chair and are unable to clearly define what a chair is but you know that you can sit on a chair and you have faith chairs exist
- you enter a room that appears empty
- you g=have faith a chair is in the far corner of the room
- you walk to the far corner of the room and attempt to sit in the chair that you have faith is there
- you fall to the floor
- while standing up, you tell yourself you fell to the floor because your faith in the chair was weak
@mharzmhason1787 Says:
Many Christians deconstruct. They became atheists because they are being thought and indoctrinated by a wrong/unbiblical faith in the church. They are just being forced to believe without any basis on proof. They are just being told to simply believe. When they are exposed to temptation, they simply give in and with their own volition they never returned to the church.
@Knight_of_BAAWA Says:
Faith is belief without evidence or in spite of evidence to the contrary. And I have no faith.
@davidhowdle315 Says:
Don’t forget regeneration. It’s that, that brings you to faith in Christ. Faith is a gift given by God so we can believe.
@MGoudsmits Says:
_And why everyone has it!_ Lucky for the world this is not true and more and more people say goodbye to fairy tales. And then those who have can not even agree what to believe in. it is a joke
@mbkkt9094 Says:
I don't get it. If you have solid evidence that Christianity is true, then surely faith isn't required?
@sierraclark6129 Says:
“If you declare with your mouth “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9). Now is the time to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. Obey His commands and repent of your sins because Jesus is coming back soon. Tomorrow isn’t promised.
@hsingh5650 Says:
We say that groups of people saw the resurrected Jesus to prove he rose from the dead. However, what about groups of people who have seen UFOs at the same time?
@Matthew_Holton Says:
That is actually quite rude. Faith is belief without evidence, believing something is true, even when there is no good reason or evidence for that belief. To assert that everyone makes this kind of error is offensive.
@jesussavestrinahaifa5884 Says:
Something very strange, I find myself thanking God profusely mostly in my thoughts and often out loud for all of the minutes that I am able to feel some peace and comfort because it is so fleeting. There is no more joy, I pray for Joy but there is no more joy but I've become used to this. It is a complete 180 from the joy-filled life that I had before thanks to being with my son. I crack a joke now and then and I may smile at those around me but that's not joy. I think one of the saddest things is that non-believers may look at my life and say "where is your God? I want nothing to do with such a cruel God, but there is no God". However I've gone from 2 years ago completely believing there is no God to trusting him through the Wilderness and all of the emotional anguish. I find myself in my prayers telling him I know that there's an important reason I just don't understand and please help me understand. And he does. God is real, He's Holy, He's good all the time and He IS a loving Father. DO NOT take for granted the moments the minutes that you are able to have peace, comfort, joy and the love of your friends and family around you.
@PM-rh6yq Says:
Like literally wherever you look or think or whatever in life, there’s just always evidence of God.
@akoskormendi9711 Says:
Redefining faith as "believing in something you have good evidence for" is fine, but you're equivicating it with the general use of the word faith. As faith is usually used as believing in something without or despite of reason and evidence. Like some Christians saying faith when their position is shown to have holes. When people just say "you just gotta have faith" when there's doubt. When even in the colloquial definition, where it is a synonym of trust, it is used for events where we not only have no reason to trust something, but we have reason not to trust that. Like when a child is lost, "have faith that he's okay", when we know a child lost alone is more likely than not won't be okay.
@Mysterychannel12 Says:
"faith is the excuse people give ,when they do not have enough reasons to believe smth"
@sierraclark6129 Says:
“If you declare with your mouth “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9). Now is the time to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. Obey His commands and repent of your sins because Jesus is coming back soon. Tomorrow isn’t promised.
@christopher4688 Says:
It depends how you define faith. I define it as belief in something beyond the natural or transcendent to the natural world. It's not a belief about a natural phenomenon or lack of belief in a deity.
With this definition, you can have no faith, or no belief in the transcendent or supernatural. If you simply mean strong conviction, sure, everyone has it. This is not how I understand this word.
@freightshayker Says:
Frank ... then the fulfillment of faith is to then demonstrate faith aka being obedient to all the laws and instructions.
As in don't just be a hearer of the word. Rather be also a doer of the word.
God's love is conditional my friends. And so to believe in the incredible sacrifice on the cross ... means you actually believe everything Lord Jesus said and did is truth. Everything. Not just the incredible sacrifice on the cross.
As in be born again of water and Spirit as per John 3: v5 and Mark 16: v16
Means you go to a man of God who knows the difference between titles baptism and baptism in the title-name-title of Lord Jesus Christ per Acts 2: v38 and Acts 19: v5
Salvation is better understood as us being a conduit of truth. Rather than just a recipient of truth.
That's why we are commanded to go out to the highways and hedges to compel people to come to the feast aka to begin to have faith in Lord Jesus.
Don't worry friends. Because your eternal future is based on you making your own choice regarding that future ... Lord Jesus will confirm truth.
You will be given understanding and knowledge from Lord Jesus through His Holy Spirit that things like trinitarian-ism, and titles baptism, and salvation through faith alone, and once-once-saved-always-saved ... are false teaching.
That's why Lord Jesus says to beware the leaven aka teaching of Pharisees.
That's why the Holy Bible says we must study the Holy Bible in order to show ourselves approved.
False teachers don't get to make your final decision on eternal future, my friends.
False teachers are only allowed to teach falsely for so long ... then Lord Jesus will require their souls for causing people who are looking for God to stumble.
Not a good outcome on the other side of life. ugg
@TruthWillprevail13 Says:
Faith!!!!!!is all I have left! Literally losing everything my job, over not wanting the vaccine, because of my battle with lupus and I have stents in my heart I literally can not get vaccines. We don’t know long term side effects either mRNA is a different type of vaccine. There are no medical exemptions. My job fired me. I have two beautiful boys, and let’s just say it’s been a hard year financially for myself like many others. But I am still here to testify how loving Jesus is! I know my hard times will pass! In the name of Jesus! I believe! Faith is ALL I HAVE LEFT! even though things are looking so darn grim! Faith!
@emanuel197u Says:
In Hebrew to have "faith" is to "express your faithfulness" to the Creator and His commandments. You can believe that He is but be unfaithful, like the demons, who know He exists but tremble. So, if you think you have faith in God, rather consider whether you are faithful to Him, because that is what faith is really about.
@Drudenfusz Says:
The part of the title that everybody has it is not addressed in the video. But worse, if everybody has something then it would become irrelevant and not meaningful to have that trait. That is video makes no sense, after all Frank Turek seems not to think very highly of having faith when he thinks that atheists have more of it than religious people.
@stormy7709 Says:
So why believe in a god? What evidence is there that a god exists?
@rolandwatts3218 Says:
The opposite of "faith" is "doubt" or "disbelief". So when Frank claims that he does not have enough trust that there is no God to be an atheist, is he nevertheless admitting that he has enough doubt to be one?
Am I missing something here? Is Frank trying to use "faith" differently in different contexts?
Besides, I've seen Christians use the term faith as meaning "blind faith" on many occasions. Biblically, had Peter seen people walk on water before he (thought he) saw Jesus walk on water, such that he could be reasonably certain that the could trust Jesus. Or did he simply jump over board on pure blind faith?
Sure, we all have to trust that our knowledge matches reality. And we have to trust that our assumptions are reasonable to hold. But if "faith" really means "trust", then why not use the word "trust"?
@niku3160 Says:
No need to worry dear brothers and sisters because of CHRIST we're COMPLETE in HIM 😊
Colossians 2:9-10
[9]For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
[10]And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Once you accept and believe in CHRIST he is already union in us
2 Corinthians 5:17
[17]Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The CHRIST we have not just only a SAVIOR but he is our VICTORY, PURITY, HOPE, JOY, LOVE, POWER, STRENGTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, GOODNESS, GENTLENESS, SATISFACTION, HOLINESS, TRUTH, WAY, LIFE, PEACE, WISDOM, PATIENCE...
Colossians 3:11
[11]Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
John 1:1,14
[1]In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
[14]And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
There's no reason were defeated because we are more than CONQUEROR and TRIUMPHANT in CHRIST JESUS 😊
KEEP ON PRAYING AND STUDY HIS WORD❤
May the GRACE and SPIRIT of GOD be with you SHALOM❤
@Franci0242 Says:
AMEN!!!
@Never-EndingLight777 Says:
Please pray for my friend Kristel! She doesn't know God. Pray that God would open her mind and heart to the truth which is in Jesus Christ and destroy satan's lies and works in her life.
@justincameron9661 Says:
Great video
@zeddicuszorrander3599 Says:
I feel like this is one of those definitions Frank Turek will use in this full video and only in this full video, if he even makes it that long. The reason I say this is Frank Turek is notorious for using the "Even atheists have faith" argument to drag down atheists to the level of faith. Now, obviously in this case, Frank Turek used a different definition of faith. Otherwise he would have said, "Even atheists trust in things." And we would have looked at him like he was an idot (because of course we do) and walked away without debating him.
@savedbymylovegodthelordjes8394 Says:
praise the Lord and God bless you all glory be to the HOLY TRINITY forever and ever amen
@piegros Says:
Good video
@Unconskep Says:
Faith is superstition, the only difference between faith and superstition is the spelling,
All religion is man made, because if one God made it up all by himself, then there would be no diversity in religion, because all religious texts would come from the same source
Religion needs faith , because if religion had proof it wouldn’t need faith
@rokitman5753 Says:
Church will not tell you WHO you are in Christ but instead we hear "you need more faith you just got to believe!
Pastors preach more on paul than on Jesus bc Jesus requires Love and Forgiveness, that kind of message requires the church to do the same to Love gays, drug addicts,homeless, women having abortions but bc it took a death for us to have the ability for us to Love, satan will sideline us with "you need more faith".... its like my dad telling me i need more faith to believe im his child. satan can use churches to keep us in the dark = question everything
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@SK-bw2cv Says:
What better reason could there be to serve God than to spend eternity in heaven? There's some reason for you.
@theoskeptomai2535 Says:
I have never encountered any evidence that suggests the existence of a god.
@IGotsToKnow2 Says:
It is obvious lifetime is a subset of eternity.
It is reasonable to believe eternal life with God is possible.
It is unreasonable to live to ensure a trashed eternity.
@ivanalexander7 Says:
This is not a difficult reduction. Faith, truth, reason, and logic are intimately entwined. All hangs on the verity of the truths we proclaim.
Faith testifies to our cleaving to a belief or commandment to which we assert is true and the bearer of truth. The verity of our faith, however, hangs on the verity of the truth we proclaim as true. Faith only migrates to reason and logic when the revelations, the experiential evidence that affirms the substance and essence of our truth, find themselves borne out in what we bear witness to transpiring in our life.
That is, having clave to a truth, in the way of a teaching or commandment, the same emerges in our life as our "mustard seed" (Matthew 13:31). When we bear witness to the revelations born from said truth, in that, we see what transpires with those who violate the commandment or reject the teaching. As well as we bear witness to those who cleave to the commandment or teaching, and thereby resist the temptations to which others succumb. It is these witnesses that serve as our revelations by which we wrought our original truth, in that, each revelation serves as a truth unto itself. Each revelation portends as another mustard seed of faith. This latter mustard seed, however, is of a hardier nature given the witness that testifies to the truth, the experiential knowledge, from whence it's born.
It is in this way and manner that a truth portends as the source from which we establish for ourselves waters that make our cup overflow. That, when nurtured, we find ourselves indulging in a mighty endlessly flowing river of refreshing and spiritually restorative waters, as, from our original truth, we're granted revelations that portend as truths themselves. And with each truth giving birth to revelations that become truths themselves. Over time what we've come to establish for ourselves is a mighty ever-flowing stream from which we enter into Eternal Life even while on earth.
Whereby, from these revelations, we have the spiritual lessons from which to draw reason, logic, and rationales that serve to embolden our profession of faith. Since what we are drawing from are truths that speak to the essence of what has transpired in our lives. And from these witnesses born from what we've experienced in life, are we better trained to look back into the depths of history that we bear witness to how men, over the ages, prevailed with the LORD. This being the essence of the sabbath that we call yesterday into remembrance.
That is, now, having fashioned for ourselves an ever-flowing mighty river of truth, we are better to surmise the LORD's Face (Exodus 33:20). In that, when it comes to those men, generations, peoples, and nations that preceded us. We are better to witness what transpires with those who trespassed against what the LORD commands, apart from what transpires with those who keep the LORD's commandment. The whole is what serves as the LORD's Face (Exodus 33:20). The whole serves for us as the basis upon which we affirm the words of Peter, who, in attesting to such an epiphanic revelation: "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him" (Acts 10:34-35).
We must be ever mindful, however, that for us to realize an ever-flowing mighty river of restorative waters, for us to realize the presence of Eternal Life while in this life. All hangs on the verity of the truth upon which we establish our faith.
@bucmcmaster Says:
And what is the evidence for your faith? Evidence, mind you, not stories in an old book......evidence that can be examined, evaluated and tested for its' veracity. Not one of the claims and assertions made in the bible can meet any test of evidence.
@avafury4584 Says:
When it came to reason for me, God's love for me was enough to take that next step to believe. God's love shown on the cross because God wants a relationship with us. After that I was in. Once I realized that God was not just some distant being that didn't care about me and that he actually wanted a relationship with me and I felt the presence and love of the Holy Spirit it was easy enough. Best choice of my life.
@Columbo-r4z Says:
If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.
Richard Carrier.
@liambaker2893 Says:
Atheists believe in the impossible. Atheism requires lots of blind faith.
@jeffphelps1355 Says:
The Bible has been criticized for thousands of yrs yet it's still changing lives every day, it has stood the test of time
@hello-cn5nh Says:
I have yet to meet or encounter online a self proclaimed atheist who is not a materialist. Materialism is the doctrine that only the physical world exists - which is a belief. You need to have faith to hold this position.
And it's contradictory by it's very nature.
@jeffphelps1355 Says:
The atheist has faith that science will find the origen of life.
@hello-cn5nh Says:
It's true that we all faith in some form or another - faith in currency for example. We have faith that our currency has purchasing power, regardless of your stance on religion or gods. If you happen to be atheist then you have faith that there are no gods.
@steelcity6420 Says:
Reason alone relies heavily on human logic from the human brain that is not only fallible but also depraved because of sin. We can't trust in human logic to figure out God or his ways. That's why the Bible says that the things of God have to be spiritually discerned. If something is not revealed to a person through the Holy Spirit then they will not understand it.
@StruckDownNotDestroyed Says:
Any belief of an origin for life and about God will require faith from the individual whether saved or unsaved. The saved who hope in God and the unsaved who hope there is no God. But all creation knows of God and testifies of God as does our God given moral conscience so that we are without excuse. Romans 1 and 2.
@Scorpion-my3dv Says:
Romans 12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
@incredulouspasta3304 Says:
_"Jesus and the apostles talk about getting evidence for your faith"_
They send mixed messages at best:
_Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; _*_blessed are those who have not seen_*_ and yet have believed.”_ - John 20:29
_Now faith is confidence in what we _*_hope for_*_ and assurance about what we do _*_not_*_ see._ -- Hebrews 11:1
@alphabeta1337 Says:
I feel like most Atheists don't even know the simple definition of Atheism.
@KyleTheDalek Says:
How?
The issue with Christianity is there clearly is evidence for evolution, look at the skeletons.
Look at the psychology out minds have evolved, traits and so on.
They actually believe people with ADD, ADHD are the next step of evolution.
Then even things like wisdom teeth the majority of people get them removed, why would God do that?
There’s now people being born without wisdom teeth.
The list goes on.
One interesting thing is if you look at the past, the first Human as we know, would have been a female, as you would need a female to give birth to the next generation of that evolved species.
XX comes first before XY, we all have nipples and we all have ovaries in the womb.
Males develop in to testes.
Why do men develop ovaries?
And have nipples ?
There is no reason to have them in a male, this again shows evolution, and could even point out that gender could be changed or switched.
And on the first humans, they would have been black and came from Africa, yet so many Christians say they were white or Middle Eastern.
Look up the first female called “Lilith”.
There’s plenty of examples of Jesus being black and yet this seems to be an issue for people.
Even though the Bible describes Jesus in detail.
@wateringthefate3890 Says:
Everyone and the devil has faith. But where the faith FROM?
answers is; if your in Christ? or outside of Christ? When Christ returns will HE find faith amongst man? 👷👷👷 inquiry mind would love to know.
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