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FAITH IS NOT BELIEVING PT 3

But what now is Faith? Apostate Protestants usually describe it as “believing” “trust” or, some, recognizing the emptiness of these definitions even define Faith as “believing God’s redemptive act…” and so, by this they make Faith (which is a noun) both a noun and verb together. The verb is “believing” the noun is “redemptive act.” But Heb. 11:1 using “Hupostasis” (Title-deed) and “Elegchos” (Proof), See Kenneth S. Wuest, Wuest Word Studies From the Greek New Testament, Vol. 2. pg. 192-193), put these concepts to death. Faith is the Revealed Truths of the Plan of Salvation (1 Tim. 4:6; Rom. 3:3; Rom. 10:8), and Heb. 11:6; shows that it is through our mental act of believing that we acquire or possess Faith, but Faith is not believing. And Phil. 1:27 tells us that the Gospel has Faith while Gal. 1:23; tells us that Faith can be preached, thus the Gospel is the Gospel of Faith.

What then is the relation of Faith to Righteousness? It is the same as the relationship of Righteousness to the Gospel. Righteousness is “in it” Rom. 1:17; the “Righteousness of God” is in the Gospel which is the Gospel of Faith, thus this Righteousness is represented in the original Greek as coming “Ek” “Out of Faith…” Rom. 1:17; as “...through Faith of Jesus…” Rom. 3:22; (meaning through the medium of); as “...the Righteousness of the Faith…” Rom. 4:11 (meaning the Righteousness that belongs to the Faith) or the “...Righteousness of Faith…” Rom. 4:13. The revealed truths of the Gospel of the Plan of Salvation simply reveal the Nature of God,Spiritual- Law, Love or the Righteousness of God which inhabits it.

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