how can you have a faith as described in hebrews 11?

Question

is it too hard to achieve?

Answer 1

Proverbs 3:5 " Trust in the Lord with all thine heart , and lean not unto thine own understanding ".

Answer 2

Read the Book of Revelation. It applies to our lives right now. From there you will find out how to have faith like those mentioned in Hebrews 11.

Answer 3

i understand what you mean. It can be very hard to have the same faith as that of the personalities mentioned in this chapter. i guess the best way to look at it is to think about the world as temporary (which it is) and truly believe that there is something higher. your worldly success is irrelevant because your ultimate goal is to go to heaven. I think this is the only way to have true faith. Have you heard about christians in china who were tortured for professing their belief in Christ- this is another example of true faith

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Answer 4

One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of faith. Faith is based upon God's Word and upon knowing that God never lies and He never fails. As you read the Bible, making sure that you are not plucking a passage out of the whole context of God's Word and applying your own stamp of approval on what you think God is promising, you learn about God and learn to trust Him as you walk in faith according to God's promises and see Him come through time and again.

Answer 5

Each of those people mentioned have a task to fulfill (calling) and each of them have freewill to choose if they want to follow God or not. But they did follow, even at times of tribulations and persecutions, some of them know that bad things would happen to them as a consequence of following God but THEN THEY PERSIST TO FOLLOW GOD KNOWING THAT HE HAD PROVIDED US WITH SOMETHING BETTER. We may have different experiences than they have, one thing is for certain, we should walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye are called (Eph 4:1)

Read Ephesians chapter 4 - 6. Instructions of the Lord on this present time on 'how to walk worthy of your calling', renewing of the mind (Philippians 2:5-8), showing longsuffering (patience), humility and love towards your fellow believer and others, conduct towards your wife and children, masters or slaves, etc., and putting on the whole armor of God by studying His words.

Hope this helps... thanks!

Answer 6

Bear in mind who wrote Hebrews - Paul the Apostle, also known as Paul of Tarsus. Paul was an agent of the collaborative efforts of the Jewish and Roman authorities of his day in eradicating the new Christian faith. His transformation from persecutor of Christians to Apostle is one of the great mysteries of the Bible - quite a psychological phenomenon. It was Paul, by the way, who espoused the idea of Jesus Christ as a literal "son of God", and who injected much of the current belief system in Christ and his teachings without ever having personally met or followed the man. Paul also became so vitriolic against the Jewish faith that he instructed Christians to abandon all Jewish rituals and traditions in the practice of their faith, and start something entirely new. Paul the Apostle is widely held by most Biblical scholars as the turning point from which Christians began to worship differently than Christ himself did.

Paul was possessed of blind faith, adamant in his denial of anything which could challenge it, and vitriolic in his denunciation of everything not directly of his faith. All in all, it's a bit much, in my humble opinion, and not something to be sought. Anything by Paul of Tarsus tends to get held with some suspicion by Ebionites.

A bit off topic, but, personally, I'm an Ebionite - we believe that there is only one God, and that all else is polytheism and against the scripture. Consequently, there is no Jesus the Son of God, or Holy Ghost, though we acknowledge and adhere to the teachings of Jesus and his followers (well, not Paul of Tarsus) as Jesus the Prophet and his Disciples, and accept that Jesus was divinely inspired, but not Divine (anymore than all men are). We also consider a belief in Satan, or any anti-God, as polytheistic, as Lucifer is essentially the mainstream Christian god of evil. We do not believe in the virgin birth, or (physical) resurrection, but we do not feel this, or his non-Divinity, cheapens in any way his works and the works of his followers – perhaps it makes them even more profound. There are not many of us - we were more or less on the losing side of the Council of Nicea with Bishop Arius, and were persecuted as Judaizers by the Inquisition until the 19th century, and by anti-Semites thereafter (we believe that Christians should maintain a Jewish style of worship, so some folks have trouble telling us apart).

Answer 7

When you believe in one thing without doubt that is faith. You have faith to your wife that she will not commit adultery. You have faith to your father or mother that they love you without doubt.

Faith to God is your sincereand heartfelt belief that there is God and if you have faith in God, you obey His laws and respect Him .
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Answer 8

In believing God's promise, that his kingdom would be a perpetual kingdom.

Answer 9

Hell no. Just close your mind and go for it.