why is faith the only way God wants us to believe in him?

Answer 1

It's all part of the control aspect.

Answer 2

There are probably other reasons, but 3 reasons in the New Testament suggested are:

1) so that salvation is "guaranteed for all the seed." i.e God has decided it not going to be a matter of who is the cleverest. If it was a matter of searchingout great subtleties, and only the very brightest got far, it would be unfair.
2) because God detests pride (it causes division and hatred). People saved through faith can't get proud of their own efforts
3) faith itself would seem to be gift, so that all who want to find God and persist would appear to get given it at some point (Ephesians 2:8-10)

Once you get in faith though, you get to see God do things in your life, so you then have actual personal evidence, as well as faith.

Answer 3

I gather that you believe faith is believing in something that has no evidence. Or better known as blind Faith, kind of like this, I cant prove god is there so I must have faith. WE think faith is what we use when there is nothing else to lean upon. But if you read the bible and how it uses the word faith you will see if give it different meaning. More like this, Because I love, because I see creation and how great it is, because I understand sin and the problem the world has with it, because of this and that I have faith in God. See faith is not believing because there is no evidence it is believing because there is. If you take this idea of faith and start to use it you will see things change. Think about it this way if you start of by saying I need to have faith in God, but think faith is lack of evidence then you end up with your question. However if you start with Faith is the evidence I can see then you end up with strength in God. And from there you continue to look having built upon the faith God has given you so far. and in doing so it becomes stronger, you understand that faith rests upon evidence and if you have faith God will give you more evidence to lean upon.

SO to answer your question using the biblical definition for faith I would say I am Glad faith is what God gives me. Because faith and the strong evidence for God existence go Hand in hand.

Answer 4

Faith is the instrumentality by which we are united to God.

Though your question suggests tautology, whether intentional or not, yet it does in fact describe a truth; that it is not possible to truly, savingly believe in God unless He first give that faith or revelation.

Faith is very humbling to the pride of man.

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?


Also, how else can we receive the righteousness we so lack? It has to be reckoned to us. Marred by sin we cannot recover perfection but can only receive the perfection of Another.

... if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.



Faith changes the way we think. We can no longer be so unutterably full of self, which God cannot bless. The slaying or denial of self makes a way for us to receive of God.

It is necessary to seek that faith from God.

Until we become convicted of our desperate and perilous state who will seek for God?

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.



Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Answer 5

I think it's because he wants us to figure things out for ourselves. He equipped us with brains of our own so we can think critically, independently, individually.

I think God expects us to decide for ourselves what is believable and what is not, and not simply to believe what we are told by others we are supposed to believe.

If God simply appeared in the sky every day to give us instructions or teachings, then it wouldn't be faith, it would be SCIENCE! It wouldn't be belief, it would be knowledge. Instead he wants us to struggle to reconcile our beliefs with our observation, faith with science.

It's not easy to do this, and we don't all agree. If faith and science were the same thing, we -would- all agree! And nobody would have to think or figure things out for themselves. And our whole culture would deteriorate into something more like ants than like human beings.

Answer 6

Because you can't believe in anything without faith. He is God He has the right to want whatever he wants.

Answer 7

I don't think God is a "Him" - and I don't think it cares how or if you believe in It.

I think God is a Power. It's the Power of Love. We can use It to make our lives and the Universe better. Or not. It's just there for us.

As for faith - my faith is that everything is as it should be at all times. It's a perfect universe. Having faith that that's how it is - helps me understand the "bad" stuff. (Cancer, starvation etc.) I may see it as bad - but really - everything is as it should be.

Hope that makes sense.

Namaste!

Answer 8

Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
What more can I say than what has been said, you must have faith in order to believe in God. It is like making a cake if you substitute salt for Sugar in the recipe it will not taste right. If you have no faith how then can you expect to believe in God. An God even gives us the faith, Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Answer 9

Faith is the antidote to pride. Pride is the sin of the devil. Pride is sin because sinners have nothing to be proud of. Sinners cling to pride because without it, they fear they are nothing. God tells us to repent of our pride because it is a barrier to his saving grace. Humility brings grace.

Because God gives faith to those asking him for it, even those exercising faith have nothing to be proud of. It is all of God! That way, God gets all the glory. And quite right too!

Answer 10

That's a question know one probably knows. Only God does. He has a VERY good reason though. I ask questions like that too. Like: If God knew that the world would end up like this, why doesn't he just stop it? If everything in heaven is supposed to be perfect, how did the devil become what he is now since he was an arch angel in heaven before? Lots and lots of questions.

Answer 11

Can a ball of Mud Question the Potter?
The Master has laid it out so a child can understand.That is the Reason He Is called God;
Satan didn"t like the way things were either;