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Old 02-13-2008, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by the_jason View Post
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....
So faith is acting on the hope that the gospel is true? That makes sense in a way. However I'm still left wondering which gospel to choose to hope for in the first place. There are a lot of different churches, and plenty that I still don't even know about. Nearly all of them advise to have faith in either their gospel or their interpretation of it. If none of them give empirical evidence of the trueness of their church, how is one to pick a church?
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