People correctly ask… if Jesus Christ is the Saviour of All Men….why does the Bible say we must ‘believe’ or ‘have faith’?

We as human beings are designed to always ‘organize’ or ‘order’ our lives upon or around a certain ‘belief’ or subjective structure of what has become for us our ‘fundamental reality’.
Having ‘faith in’, or ‘believing in’, is basically about being ‘persuaded’ inwardly.
Persuaded enough about something or someone to allow an adjustment in the ‘inward ordering’ of our ‘fundamental realities’.
Convinced sufficiently to allow a new found personal ‘reality’ or ‘value’ to take priority in the  belief structure upon which we will henceforth predicate our future thoughts, feelings and actions.
Believing ‘into’ Christ, corrects our endemic spiritual  ignorance, and informs our consciousness of the true spiritual genesis of our being and of our life, as being not only sourced from, but  literally ’hidden’ ‘in Christ’…Who in turn is ‘hidden’…. ‘In God’!
Believing, or being persuaded aboutthe ‘fundamental reality’ of Jesus Christ,  brings an immediate  shift  in our ‘awareness’ and ‘experience’,altering the very central axis or pivotal point from where  we interpret our ‘existence’ and life. Faith dramatically shifts the pivotal point of our ‘subjective existence’ away form our empty, spiritually darkened, and shame-based self-concept.
It’s this very void in our consciousness that produces an external focus in the perpetual and futile search for meaningful identity outside of ourselves, manifesting inter alia, in man made religion. Faith in Christ shifts it inwardly,the central axis of our focus now becoming the awareness of Christ within…..the ‘hope’ of Glory! Otherwise stated, as a ‘confident expectation’ for the realization of the ‘doxa’ or the very ‘opinion’ of God. His opinion or persuasion about the ‘fundamental reality’ concerning ‘who’ and ‘what’ we as human beings truly are in the sight of God! Faith or ‘belief’ in Jesus Christ, is the only portal whereby humans have access into the ‘conscious experience’ of our inseparable and eternal relatedness to the Father of our spirits. The inward entry into an awareness of our true identity and unique status of sonship. The fundamental reality of our very life and person being held in His loving embrace whilebeing gazed upon as being a valuable and precious child of God the Father!

 

 

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