For We Walk By Faith

General Faith
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Wednesday 11-13-24 4th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Chesvan 10 5785 53rd. Fall Day

In the book of Genesis, soon after the Flood, God made a covenant with Noah and his descendants that He would never again subject the earth to a worldwide deluge which would destroy all life on the planet, mankind and animals.

God told Noah and his family,
“ ‘As for me, I am establishing my COVENANT with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.

I establish my covenant with you that never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.’ God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the
covenant between me and the earth.

When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen
in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth”

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, but why are there so many kinds of faith?
(For example, the faith of Abraham through obedience?)

What is your view on the above?

Love, Walter

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Walter,
I would like to offer a perspective responding to your question “… **but why are there so many kinds of faith?”. I have walked with The LORD for many years, and He has shown me in several ways that the simplest understanding of “faith” is “taking GOD at His word”. I know the word “faith” is used in multiple ways in common parlance, but when we use it biblically, we mean taking God at His word. The Ephesians passage you reference above is urging the readers toward unity. Eventhough members of the Body of the Christ are diverse in their gifting and personalities, we all share “One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism” that is One soverign to whom we all submit, one persuasion from Him which we are ready to accept and act upon, having all gone through a common regeneration from death to life. Specifically, to your question, there is “one Faith” because there is one God to whom we listen and accept what He says. Abraham, taking God at His word, acted in obedience. This is what Habakuk was saying (2:4) when he said “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith”; or the just live by taking God at His word. The world may speak of many faiths, but God speaks only of one. Something to consider.

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11-16-24

Amen, really is something to consider.

Love, Walter