• Holman On Faith

  Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010 (message contributor)

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HOLMAN ON FAITH

Holman defines FAITH: Trusting commitment of one person to another, particularly of a person to God. Faith is the central concept of Christianity. One may be called a Christian only if one has faith.

Holman adds: Our English word "faith" comes from the Latin fides, as developed through the Old French words fei and feid. In Middle English (1150-1475) "faith" replaced a word that eventually evolved into "belief." "Faith" came to mean "loyalty to a person to whom one is bound by promise or duty." Faith was fidelity. "Belief" came to be distinguished from faith as an intellectual process having to do with the acceptance of a proposition. The verb form of "faith" dropped out of English usage toward the end of the sixteenth century.

Faith is defined in Hebrews the following way: Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."