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Originally Posted by DigitalShadow
I did read it but I still can't seem to understand it. Defining faith as "hope for things which are not seen, which are true" does not make sense to me no matter how much I look at it. It seems that if something is true, you don't need to hope for it. If it's unseen, then either you believe it on faith because you "feel" that is right, or you don't believe it, where does hope come into this?
(I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I honestly want help understanding this)
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I believe faith is hope turned into action. In other words, anyone can hope the gospel is true, but only those with faith that it's true signify it by their actions. They live the gospel. They don't just sit back and hope. Faith and hope are closely related, but faith requires more effort. Hope is the beginnings of faith. Faith also involves knowledge, though not perfect or complete knowledge.
Okay I'm not making any sense, but anyway....