{"id":3514,"date":"2021-06-02T22:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2021-06-02T22:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:29:39","slug":"but-what-does-believing-actually-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"But what does “believing” actually mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
We would know at all, somehow define? We would be able to determine somehow where we are the true Christian faith begins, as the Bible says and where, on the contrary, is that faith still not? When the Bible speaks of faith and Christianity in general, it points to one important little thing. For example, Jesus quotes Isaiah: \u201cFor the heart of this people is dull: they have hardly heard their ears, and their eyes have closed; that they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears, that they may not understand with their hearts; and they have not been converted \u2014 so that I cannot heal them \u201d(Mt 13:15). And again, \u201cThou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind-heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind! 38 It is the greatest and first commandment. \u201d(Mt 22: 37n). Elsewhere, he blames himself again to the disciples: \u201cYou who do not understand and have a heart to believe everything spoke the prophets! 26 Didn’t the Messiah suffer all this, and so on to enter into your glory? \u201d(Lk 24,25n).<\/h2>\n
When Stefan speaks in council, he will say, \u201c51 You stubborn with an uncircumcised heart and ears, you always oppose the Holy Spirit; you as well as your fathers. \u201d(Acts 7.51). And Paul again warns the Romans: \u201c5 But you are with your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you accumulate anger for the day of anger, when the righteous judgment of God will be revealed \u201d(Rom 2: 5). And then he immediately outlines the solution: \u201c9 For if by your mouth you confess: “Jesus is Lord!” And in your heart, you will believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved \u201d(Rom 10: 9). Enough? Did we notice? According to the Bible, faith and Christianity itself are a matter HEART! In Hebrew – and Jesus, Stephen and Paul were Hebrew, and they thought in Hebrew – the word heart, healing, means something like the center of gravity and the center of the whole person. Believe in the heart – today would we may have said to believe essentially. Just like that Finally, the Catechism of the Catholic Church also speaks when he defines the Christian faith in the words: \u201cBy faith man is completely he subordinates his intelligence and will to God. All my own by being manifesting his agreement with God the Revelatory. \u201d(KKC 143). Faith, then, is the essential attitude of the whole person. This is just this one attitude, which is exactly what the Bible has in mind when he speaks of faith. Everything else, everything less, by faith t’s not. She is a mere opinion. Nothing more\u2026 And between faith and opinion is a huge difference! We can best understand this with this example: \u2022 Faith is a matter of inner, the deepest conviction. If someone asks you: \u201cYou really believe that this house will be in an hour, will it collapse? \u201d, and you will answer,\u201c Yes, I firmly believe in an hour it will fall! \u201d- then it means that you take what you can and from home, you run away. It goes without saying what else could be done in the house, which is already falling? \u2022 But opinion, this is a superficial, external thing. Our life does not determine opinions. Opinion – that means saying something as follows: \u201cYes, I think that this house may fall into hours. Same. It is possible. But I believe it won’t happen. \u201d And that’s why no escape takes place\u2026 The problem is that our Christianity is largely based just on the level of opinions. We can see it on such things that concern our lives, so more specifically. For example, such a death: We are, of course, of that opinion and the opinion that after death, of course, there is eternal and beautiful life in Heaven. We’re Christians, aren’t we? Such a belief, however, belongs to Christianity! But – what, in fact, inside, do we believe in the heart? Just look at the people at, for example, Christian funerals! In one of his letters, Paul writes: 13 We would not, brethren, that ye should not know what is done to the dead; lest you grieve like others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, is God he will bring those who have fallen asleep with him through Jesus \u201d(1 Thess. 4: 13n). And that’s a reason for great joy. But what do you see at funerals? Rejoicing people? Dancing over that again, one of them is already safe, at home? And the joy of being already, will we follow them soon? Fig! You see crying, crying, interpretation of condolences, and the like. Why? Because not an opinion yet is faith. And whatever our opinion, our faith, it is a deep, subconscious belief that governs our lives and ours. The action is about another: here, specifically, about that real-life, we live on earth, and death means losing everything, and therefore to die is indeed a tragedy\u2026<\/h2>\n
And so you can see “Christians” who are on the one hand opinions that they agree with everything that is written in the Bible and what the Church has announced, hey\u2026 but on the other hand live indistinguishable from people who are not believers. They live completely secularly. Why? Because their inner faith believes in something completely different. Exactly what people without Hope believe\u2026 And so, instead of living with the living God, whom he truly and deeply trusts instead, they live only with a Christian view instead of faith and with the thought of God instead of God himself. But that’s terribly little\u2026<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"