Faith
"your faith is equal to or less than the knowledge you have, never greater", this was a statement a friend send me and it made my mind go wild for a second because it made me ask myself some hard questions. Does it mean that their people who will always have "little" or "small" faith because they do not possess or have a lot of knowledge or the other way around does it mean that those people who are well informed or have amassed knowledge will have great faith? Is this the ground of faith anyway? if not what is an adequate ground of faith available to the simplest uninformed among us? I will respond to this because the scriptures urge me to 1st John 4:1. Believing and knowing are not alternatives in the new testament, belief is based on knowledge and leads to deeper knowledge john 17:7,8 Paul writes to the Corinthians "we believe and therefore we speak, knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus"2nd cor 4:...