Ken Howell:
Very refreshing to read your description of commitment to the plain word of God...
I had always struggled with defining faith. Waded through the popular "Christian" bookstore heretics on faith many moons ago and it took a long time to get that garbage out of my subconscious mind.
Have you ever read that old Methodist theologian Ralston? Back when Methodists feared God and studied the bible?? One of the best plainest theologies I have ever read.
He comments on Heb 11: 1-... He comes up with this... that faith is to be fully persuaded based upon incontrovertable evidence.
In any case faith is somewhat of a mystery to me but Ralston points out two facets...
1) to be fully persuaded as to what is factually true.
2) to trust.
Now you bring out this aspect of commitment. I am gonna study on that some.
Have you ever read that Puritan, Goodwin- "The Objects and Acts of Justifying Faith" ??
Or William Gurnall's chapter on faith in his massive work, "The Christian In Complete Armour"
