Tiberius
Well-Known Member
I’ve observed that faith has different meanings for people and sometimes the way the word
Faith is used is equivalent to wishful thinking, presumption, baseless. For example A person could say I have faith that I’m going to get a car or a house for free. I would ask did God tell you that because if He didn’t then it’s presumption. God has to speak and a person has to hear God speak before they can have faith. When God speaks and makes a promise to a person then they can either believe God and act on what He said (this would demostrare this person has faith) or that person can say I don’t believe God (this would demonstrate they don’t believe God) this would be unbelief or lack of faith.
I think that defining "faith" as "believing without evidence" works pretty well for both kinds of faith you mention.