In Deuteronomy 32:20 God himself declared upon the children of Israel, saying, “…..I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.”
Conclusively, God designed faith as a means of connection between him and the people He made. The subject matter of ‘seeking’ faith arose at a time when humanity fell in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve are not a product of the word ‘faith’. They saw God. They spoke directly with God. They occupied a distinct position that we, hereafter, can never picture. Adam named all creatures, Gen 2:19. They heard the voice of God walking in the cool of the day and in the essence of being in the presence of God is not just a one-time thing.
We began to talk about faith explicitly enough after they fell. Man was like searching for the true God after his fall, and making hellish mistakes. In the same vein, God was in the business of reaching down to men. Gen 4:3-4. We aren’t looking at the face of offerings here, considering ‘Faith’. It takes Faith for Abel to get things right with God. It takes the otherwise for Cain to make a sacrifice not acceptable. He went to kill his brother. The moral justification for this is his faithlessness. What happened next? God hid his face from him. His end was froward, there is no faith in him.
The faith at Eden was not a ‘seeking faith’, it was ‘faith by believing in what God has instructed them’. After man fall, there is a struggle for him on both ‘seeking and believing’ in the systemic circuit of faith.
Having made the subject matter of faith plain. The genesis of it. From the very angle of reality. Faith is now defined, Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith is a declaration of spiritual realities of God in which the natural man feels, touches, smells, and all his sensitive organs attest to the availability of those things which are not seen by his physical composition. Faith makes spiritual realities so real to a man of faith that the natural man sees him as someone under the influence of alcoholic fantasy or something likened to being in the bondage of hallucinations.
The second order of the verse reveals that, “The evidence of things hoped for.” Now, no man on this earth before Jesus Christ and until now can literally claim to be present at the creation of the World, except for the revelation given unto the writer of Genesis. Faith transcends and apprehends the truth, so John could see beyond revelation that in the beginning was the Word. This captures, in the beginnings of beginnings, that there is no beginning without a beginner who begins the beginning.
Faith is objective in creatorial explanations uncommon and impractical, because, God is mysterious. You do not need a microscope to capture the evidences of faith. You do not need to operate on fiendish application and appointment to know what faith entails in prospect to things you are hoping for. Those who rejected faith are subjective. Subject to deceits, decoratives of unaligned principles, and regarding prejudices that glorify the wisdom of the Flesh.
‘Real Science’ accommodates and capitalizes on the ‘revelation’. No wonder, some of them believe that at the bottom layer of science, you will be convinced by the testimony God gave. Unfortunately, scientists like Charles Darwin wrote in his book, ‘The Origin of Species’, that the methodology applied to a creator. Who is now the creator? Explicitly, he fails to touch the pureness and depth of origin. Since he never touches the question of origins. Then, those who believe that faith and what they hope for is not a fairytale must sue the acceptability of those very misguided books by millions with thorough, classical, and open-minded questions.
It is now obvious what the Holy Scriptures testified about. 1 Corinthians 2:14, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” The hardest question about the beginning of the material world and the hope of a man afterwards, can be credibly answered by a simple Christian with his Holy Bible, just a few lines of a verse. “By faith we understand.” Heb 12:3, ‘Then in question’ and ‘now in question’ Hebrews 11:39, “And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.” and ‘afterwards in question’ Hebrews 11:16, “But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.”
The Mystery Of Faith; Pathway To Realities
• The centurion’s servant got healed after the centurion himself answered, “Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.” Such faith is hard to see. He was commended for seeing how the frequency of the word will flow through and get to his servant, in fact, the bodily presence of Jesus Christ coming down is another form of delay. Matt 8:8.
• A tidbit of faith is faith. A measure of faith in the lens of God in a man, though small, will push him to do and act like Him, because he believes in Him. Luke 17:6, “And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.”
• The accounts given in Hebrews 11 are not jokes on the subject matter of faith.
• Faith develops gradually and essentially, Rom 10:17, “Faith comes by hearing…”
• Faith is lived on, it’s like a house you stay in and are locked in forever. In four distinct places, the Holy Bible tells us, “The just shall live by faith.” The ‘by’ signifies significantly, you live by faith. You are faithful, because you believed in the revelations of God.
• Jesus Christ has answered the perplexities of every man. Have faith in God. Mark 11:22. This is a pointer that man should believe for himself that he was once with God. He does not need ‘faith’, he needs no revelation. He’s in reality. When sin came. Separation was inevitable. Revelation of order came and we must believe in it and in Him.
After the revelation, the Revelator Himself came to do justice to fate. By faith, we have to receive it/Him.