God Does Not Have Faith

...that in all things He might have the pre-eminence. – Col 1:18

One doctrinal excess of the “Faith Movement” is its declaration that God also operates by faith! That is, just as we need faith to make things happen in our lives, God also uses faith to create things through His words.

This is not just logically wrong, but philosophically borders on blasphemy.

Faith’s not a thing, a corporeal entity, or a ‘force’ that exists outside of God.  Faith is like Gravity. When a man jumps from a 100-storey building, we say it’s “gravity” that pulls him to the ground. But in the strictest sense, it’s the EARTH (owing to the immense disproportionality of its mass to the man’s) that’s pulling him. This act of the Earth’s pulling is what we call “Gravity”.

The Earth doesn’t need something called “gravity”; if its size automatically keeps a seventy-four thousand quadrillion tonne Moon in its orbit, it doesn’t need anything to bring a puny 70kg man crashing to itself.

In this same sense, God’s power at work in our lives as a result our trust in His Word is what we call “Faith”. It’s illogical therefore for God Himself to now need that same faith.

Philosophically, if something external of God is required for His word to come to pass, then that “thing’ – whatever it is – is higher than Him.

God does not have faith, because God does not need faith. His name, (used 6,521 times in scripture), is Jehovah – the self-subsisting/self-Existent One. when He speaks, things come to pass by virtue of who He is.

When our Lord told His disciples to have the “God kind of Faith” (Mk 11:22) He meant “have the kind of faith that’s focussed on GOD”, not that they should have the faith that God has. This is why most Bible versions translate it as “have faith IN God.”

As Col 1:18 hints, God wants His Son, the Creator of all things (including the law of Gravity and the ‘law’ of Faith) to always have the pre-eminence    in all things.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN