Faith Alone

„Faith alone will save our souls”, so say the Bible. But „faith alone” does not mean faith in one particular belief of other.

Faith alone means just that; faith, all by itself. We do not need to have „faith in Christ” or „faith in the Bible” in order to know the saving grace of „God”. In fact, having faith in anything that you can define, or even just imagine, is what the Bible warns us not to do, over and over.

This is called idol worship. Any time that you put your faith in something imagined, which can be (and usually is) an intellectual construct sometimes represented by a physical form (e.g. golden calf), then you are idol worshipping. It does not matter if the image you are worshipping has a physical form or not, if it is an idea, then it is an image, and it is a „false god.”

Now, I'm not saying „faith in God” or even „faith in Christ” is always a form of idol worship. As long as „God” or „Christ” are not imagined to be something ( i. e. a man from Nazareth, or an „old man in heaven”) then you have the kind of faith that saves. That is, formless or imageless faith, which is faith alone.

(Originally written by Joseph E. Duncan III - September 12, 2010 – 2 pm)