Apologetics
FAITH, for it to be true, must rest on the revelation of who Christ is.
There is no faith apart from Him; He is the one who authors faith in our heart, and He is the one who will finish it.
This FAITH is not an ecstatic acceptance of unprovable reality, nor is it a passive surrender to an illogical premise. It is rather "a reasonable response to the evidence at hand."
If faith is void of verifiable reason (evidence), then faith is an illusion and Christ a myth. Therefore, if it has no reason, it is not faith.
The evidence of faith forms the basis of the following:
¤Our justification unto sonship (Gal 3:24,26; Eph2:8,9);
¤Obtaining a good testimony and God's seal of approval (Heb 11:2);
¤Being pleasing to God (Heb11:6);
¤Boldness to answer adversaries and situations (1Pet 3:15);
¤The hope of our perfection (Matthew 5:48; Heb11:40).
Great is the mystery of the faith!(1Tim 3:9)
James challenges the advocates of substanceless faith to show him their faith without their works. He offers to give his works as evidence of his faith. To James, it is not enough to believe giving to the poor is a Christian virtue. It must become an experiential reality.
Our actions and not words are faithful witness of the reality of our faith or how do we hope to convict our sinner friends of the possibility of the Christian life?
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