Comments on: Answers from Lumen Fidei

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By: bekamartin

bekamartin — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 21:42:59 +0000

I see faith as what God himself gave to me, so that I could have faith in him and have faith to teach to others. And when I could have no faith, God helped me have faith.

All from God himself.

By: BrianK

BrianK — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 13:33:38 +0000

This is a great read, thanks for sharing this, forests. I think many of the Pope’s words are a great corrective to the flaws in ubf KOPAHN theology.

For example, in point #8, Francis makes these excellent points:

“8. Faith opens the way before us and accompanies our steps through time. Hence, if we want to understand what faith is, we need to follow the route it has taken, the path trodden by believers, as witnessed first in the Old Testament. Here a unique place belongs to Abraham, our father in faith. Something disturbing takes place in his life: God speaks to him; he reveals himself as a God who speaks and calls his name. Faith is linked to hearing. Abraham does not see God, but hears his voice. Faith thus takes on a personal aspect.”

Francis points to the goodness of a disturbing event in Abraham’s life. Learning to discern God’s voice is a critical part of faith, and Francis rightly ties the two together. But ubf KOPAHN theology teaches us that it is the ubf shepherd/director’s voice that matters, and that following the route of faith of historic Christianity is not so important. What is important, according to ubf KOPAHN, is preserving the ubf legacy, and walking in the path of the ubf ancestors of faith.

He continues…

“God is not the god of a particular place, or a deity linked to specific sacred time, but the God of a person, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, capable of interacting with man and establishing a covenant with him. Faith is our response to a word which engages us personally, to a “Thou” who calls us by name.”

KOPAHN theology teaches us that God is a god of a particular place, and that we must discover the “god of America” or the “god of France” and our working for god will change that place to have the correct god, the god of the bible.

By: Ben Toh

Ben Toh — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:38:04 +0000

Thanks, Forests! Faith is one of the key teachings that I learned from UBF Bible study, in particular from Mk 11:22-25 and Heb 11:6. My mentor encouraged me to “have faith in God” in order to raise many disciples of Christ, up to 120 members in my fellowship.

Though I believe that his intention to help me have faith in God was good, I mainly came to see and view faith as something I had to generate within myself. Often it seemed that my effort was insufficient to generate the faith that would please God (Heb 11:6).

Over the last few years I began to realize that faith is not only my responsibility to be lived out as a Christian, but also a gift from God (Eph 2:8-9; Phil 1:29). Faith is primarily a gift from God which should evoke thanksgiving and praise, rather becoming proud because of my “superior faith.”