Faith is believing beyond what we are able to see or feel. Rather, it is methods to believe with the center, our spirit, our inward man. Faith is much more powerful than a fleeting emotion, with no stability, but is enticed and motivated by the winds of change which blow constantly in divers directions, never seeming to have its feet on solid ground. bible quotes
Indeed, the person who decides to call home by the notion that, "If it feels right, it should be right" and "If it feels good, get it done", can testify a live influenced by every feeling which an individual experiences will undoubtedly be filled up with much misery, regret and decay. Feelings aren't always reliable. They are to be enjoyed, however, not depended upon.
Christianity is not based on how exactly we feel. It is stable and reliable. It's by faith. It's believing in God and what He says, beyond how things appear. This is really the second of the six foundational teachings of Christianity. We must have faith toward God and we must develop faith in God.
No intelligent person, who desires to learn truth will deny that there is a God. Even creation itself reveals that God exists. The entire world is too well put together and the universe too magnificent and vast for any real thinking person to doubt that the Being of Enormous Power, Wisdom, Intelligence and Might created it. This Being is God. Some call Him the Higher Power. Indeed He is. He is the One Who made everything and therefore He is the Someone to Whom all must give account.
The first of the Doctrines of the Christian Faith is Repentance from Dead Works. This way to turn around from sin and all religious works which cannot give a person right-standing with the Creator of the universe, a Righteous and Holy God. The next step is to trust God and in what He did to create us back again to Himself.
Did I say, "bring us back"? Indeed I did, for something happened which had separated us from our God. The story can be found in the first Book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis. Almighty God had created man in His image and after His likeness. Man was created for the purpose of fellowshipping with God. Man had right-standing with God. He was clean, innocent, and holy. God made man like Himself and for Himself. Man however decided to go against God, being tempted by an angel, a fallen angel who did not wish to submit himself to ab muscles One Who made him. We in Christianity call him the devil. He is wicked, evil and filled with lies and deceptions.
He tempted man and mankind succumbed to that tempter. When the very first man, Adam, and his wife, paid attention to and obeyed God's enemy, the fallen angel, they fell from their right-standing with God. These were now sinners, and thus they certainly were in sin and incapable of helping themselves get free from it. This is what the phrase in the Bible, "dead in sin" means. (Ephesians 2:1-3)
This sinful nature they passed on, through birth, to all or any of humanity. (Romans 5:12, The Bible). Most of us arrived to this world with a nature of sin. It's said that man is inherently good. According to the teachings of the Bible, this isn't so. Man is inherently evil, until he repents and turns to God in faith that what God has provided for man can set us free and bring us back to right-standing with Himself.
God, in seeing man-kind's situation determined, due to His great love for us, to simply help us. We will not help ourselves. So God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ to die for us and shed His blood to clean away our sinful nature, bringing us once more into right-standing with God as His very children.
This is actually the real essence of faith toward God. We ought to believe that God sent His Son to die for our sins. We should believe that Jesus Christ paid the purchase price for our sins and that God raised Him from the dead. We ought to believe that individuals can now come to God and be His children, obtaining a righteous position with Him once again, not on the foundation of what we've done, but instead on the cornerstone of what He has done for us in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And we should receive God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord and personal Savior.