what is the bible saying in the book if hebrews 11:1?

Answer 1

It is describing what true faith is. This is not saying that faith is wishing, or the way we use 'hope' loosely today ('hope' is what we set our hearts desire on). Faith is solid, sure. When God says he will do it, it's a FACT that we can count on, without doubt. And it is what God promises that Christians hope for.

And therefore, faith is like a voucher. It is redeemable with God. We can cash it in for the thing desired.

Faith is NOT that blind mush that most refer to when they speak of 'faith'. It is not wistful wishing, nor dreams, nor what we would LIKE things to be like. It is real, solid, sure and true in the future.

Answer 2

In the New World Translation, the causative form of the Hebrew verb ´a·man´ is sometimes rendered “exercise faith.” According to the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, “at the heart of the meaning of the root is the idea of certainty . . . in contrast with modern concepts of faith as something possible, hopefully true, but not certain.” The same work says: “The derivative ´amen ‘verily’ is carried over into the New Testament in the word amen which is [the] English word ‘amen.’ Jesus used the word frequently (Mt 5:18, 26, etc.) to stress the certainty of a matter.” The word rendered “faith” in the Christian Greek Scriptures also means belief in something firmly based on fact or truth.

Today, we are standing at the borders of God’s new world of righteousness. If we are to enter it, faith is essential. Happily, the foundation of truth upon which to base that faith has never been deeper. We have the entire Word of God, the example of Jesus Christ and his anointed followers, the support of millions of spiritual brothers and sisters, and the backing of God’s holy spirit in unprecedented measure. Yet, we do well to analyze our faith and take steps to strengthen it while we yet can.

Answer 3

One dictionary defines faith as “firm belief in something for which there is no proof.” Far from supporting that idea, however, the Bible stresses just the opposite. Faith is based on facts, on realities, on truth. The Scriptures say: “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Hebrews 11:1) A person having faith has a guarantee that everything promised by God is as good as fulfilled. So strong is the convincing proof of unseen realities that faith is said to be equivalent to that evidence.

Answer 4

Hebrews 11:1 (King James Bible) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

This verse defines faith. Substance here means "the confident expectation." Faith rejoices without seeing or understanding what God is doing.

Answer 5

As the answers already show: faith, understood at least from that particular verse, has been understood to mean more than one thing.
Either... the focus is on the act of faith, in the absence of demonstrated reason (focus staying with "assurance" and "things unseen")
Or, it is on the confidence that is possible for the unseen, if faith (confidence, trust,) has already been built on other grounds.

A third option is that it is the having faith *itself* with is the assurance and evidence of the things unseen that are to come. That's unlikely as a reading, as it would make it that "believing makes it so."

Answer 6

That is one of the many notoriously slippery scriptures. it went from Hebrew to Latin to Greek to English (I think that one went through Latin, I have a hard time keeping track) It seems to be saying that faith in YAHOSHUA is self evidence of our salvation, but don't rest your entire argument on any one scripture.-- especially in the "New Testament".