Trust is an essential aspect of faith but it's hard to see how one can trust in someone or something that one knows nothing about. & if one in some sense knows God, it's hard to see how one can trust that God will fulfill his promises unless one believes that those promises are true.
Shalom,
George
---- "John Burgeson (ASA member)" <hossradbourne@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/18/09, Iain Strachan <igd.strachan@gmail.com> wrote:>
> > To my mind complex creedal statements that are not (after all) part of
> > the Bible, complicate matters.
> >
> > John 3:16 states:
> >
> > For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
> > whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
> >
> > It seems to me that this is sufficient alone.
>
> Understanding that the word "believing" above really meand "trusting,"
> I concur. However, it is a definition, not a command.
>
> There are people who neither believe not disbelieve that definition.
> They are not in a position (perhaps because God has not yet spoken to
> them) to assent to a belief they don't hold.
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