The Authentic Meaning of Faith

I have constructed 'faith' into the three following meanings:

1) Faith is certain that God is authentic, true, and correct in every situation or circumstance, no matter what the condition may be.
2) Faith obediently receives whatever God may command, prohibit, or warn against, because it knows that God’s way is authentic, true, and correct.
3) Faith starts with the promise of God, lives in the promise of God, and ends with the promise of God, and without God’s divine intervention no promise can be inherited by the one to whom the graciousness is promised.

For faith in the living God seeks a life that is far beyond the boundaries that are in place to protect those who trust in God and seeks instead after a life centered on personal relationship and a response of wholehearted brokenness as the result of the gracious promise that has been mercifully offered by God through the work of Christ. Mercy is to be defined as not getting what one does deserve and grace is to be defined as getting what one doesn’t deserve, so that through both the mercy and grace of Christ the promises of God might be received by the one who believes as an undeserved and unearned gift, resulting in real, genuine, indestructible, and unmerited faith in the living God.



-burton 261E