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http://wallpaperscristaos.com.br/christianwallpapers/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/faith-God-wallpaper_1920x1200.jpg “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen"—Heb 11:1 Friend of mine recently asked me what I knew about faith.  Right away I made an attempt explaining him faith since I’ve been a Christian for few years now.  After a long discussion, we both decided to study faith and get back to this topic.  Faith is a word often heard in churches; when reading the Bible, just in New Testament we find 243 verses that mention the word faith.  When I began reading all these verses and thinking about them, I understood that I had little knowledge of faith.  Faith is a general and practical topic in Christianity, but I knew little about it.  So the question I want to ask is this: what is faith? Studying the scripture, the best description we find is in Hebrews chapter eleven verse one: “Now faith i...

What does it means, “no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father” (John 6:65)? www.193.105.21.101/image/14834/space_stars_3_1920x1200.jpg Granted what? Some might say that Jesus is talking to disciples and here is the context when God is choosing the disciples, God grants disciples a way to Jesus. There were twelve disciples, and God choose them to be with Christ. Others might say that Jesus here is talking about how God is revealing the revelation to people, but they need to believe in Him first; person needs to shows interest in Jesus, then God grants him or aproves his desire. But when we look at the context, non of these two ideas supported by these verses. Jesus is having a dialog with people who showed interest in him but they can’t understand and believe what Jesus is saying. And second, this text never mentions about person interest in God following with God's approval.  But we see the opposite, those who do show interest in Jesus are those who ...

Some people say that you could walk away from the faith in Christ; and suppose that this is true, you cannot say this according the John 15:1-8 passage which is being quoted the most in this argument. The vine that does not have fruit in reality does not have Christ. First of all, we need to understand what Jesus is saying in this passage. Jesus illustrates himself, the Father, and the his followers: His father being a vinedresser, He is the vine, and his followers are the branches. At the beginning of his illustration, Jesus makes a statement; that there are two branches that are coming out of Him, both of those branches are His. Jesus says, “Every branch of mine” (2), in other words, when Jesus later makes the statement that the vinedresser cuts away the unfruitful branch and it is thrown in to the fire for it to burn because of no fruit, this branch is somehow connected to the vine. Note that the only connection that this branch has is the appearance, and nothing else. T...