Samuel G Dawson

Foundations of Faith Samuel G Dawson

Everyone who believes anything about the Bible knows that the Bible teaches the absolute necessity of faith to please God. Faith is such a basic subject in the Bible that Paul calls the gospel "the faith" because it produces faith, and teaches salvation by faith. Some believe faith is a blind, unquestioning attitude that leads a person to accept the most ridiculous things either without evidence, or in spite of all the evidence. Some say faith is an indescribable gift injected by God when the recipient neither expects it nor desires it. The Bible teaches that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, that is, faith is conviction in a person's mind concerning things unseen that is produced by authentic evidence. We all have convictions concerning things we've never seen: a city in a foreign country where we've never been, electric and magnetic fields, and atoms and their even smaller particles. We're confident those things exist because of evidence. Some think, "I couldn't possibly be involved in anything having to do with faith," yet everyone of us, every day of our life, is involved in things we haven't seen, from the most militant atheist to the most faithful Christian. This book contains authentic evidence which will produce conviction in the human mind: evidence for the existence of God, the inspiration of the Bible, and the character of Jesus Christ. It will not only produce conviction in your mind, but it will help you help others obtain strong convictions. This author has debated atheist professors in public universities using the very practical evidence in this book, and many have been converted to Christ as a result of seeing this evidence. Others have had their faith strengthened because of it. He's confident this evidence will have the same result with you.