and his work we will have communion with God. This complete and utter trust in Jesus Christ is faith," (Forell 19). I tend to side with George W. Forell and his explanation of Christian faith. Christian faith has an implication of love. It is strictly a personal act. The "agape" that exists between the lord and all of his creations is manifested into each religion's faith. This agape is the respect, connection, and intellectual virtue that exist between men and women and their belief in God. Faith can also be thought of as a perception. It is not a conclusion or a proof; "it is not an explanation of the world, an argument from causality, an apologetic of creation," (Chenu 2). Faith is neither black or white, but somewhere in the gray area in-between. Religious faith has been challenged theoretically for thousands of years due to this lack of physical proof or evidence to support or even contradict the Christian doctrines and dogmas. Science continues to be the opposition to Christian faith and distorts the scripture as "myth". Science is a form of knowledge based on, and governed by evidence. It debates faith as there is no scientific proof of God's existence today in the world. Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith is not the same as hope. Hope is wishing for something. Faith is having it in a faith dimension."Christian faith is clearly more than the assent of the intellect to the truth of certain propositions. It is a relation of the whole man to God, a commitment which we tend to attribute to the heart and will," (Bendall 11).There are distinctly two aspects of faith. On one side of the coin, the act of the believer terminates not in a dogmatic proposition but in the divine reality itself that it expresses in a human manner. This realism of faith is the basis of its mystical value. It is not "a concept of reality, but reality itself," (Chenu 18). On ...
