What Is Faith?

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What is faith? In its most developed form, faith is a deeply personal relationship with God. In its simplest form, however, faith is the way we explain our life. Guided by what the human spirit has already decided, the simplest form of this explanation consists of the following three basic ideas:

Heaven: We exist because God, who does not need to be explained, decided to share His life. (click here to read more about heaven

Love: We are here, in this world, to participate in our own creation. God is giving each of us the opportunity to become our own person. This is the reason that we are born unformed, unknowing, and utterly self-centered, and we are called to grow. We are called to grow in the faith that inspires the love which makes us more like God, and prepares us to share God's life as richly as we might. (click here to read more about love)

God's plan: In the act of creation, God put into action a plan for everything that would ever happen, including all the events of all of our lives. He did this knowing how we would respond to these events. In this way, we become the people God wants us to be, while, in the process, each of us still becomes our own person. (click here to read more about God's plan)


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