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Often times the example of a chair is given to illustrate the practicality of biblical faith. When you sit down in a chair (and perhaps you are now, while reading this article), do you generally worry whether that chair will hold you up? Usually, one will never think about the chair, and take it for granted. Another way to think of that same illustration is a person who sits on the edge of their seat, because they are nervous about the chair. They are not sitting back and resting in the chair, but tensed and ready just in case it turns out that the chair becomes untrustworthy and falls over.
 
Often times the example of a chair is given to illustrate the practicality of biblical faith. When you sit down in a chair (and perhaps you are now, while reading this article), do you generally worry whether that chair will hold you up? Usually, one will never think about the chair, and take it for granted. Another way to think of that same illustration is a person who sits on the edge of their seat, because they are nervous about the chair. They are not sitting back and resting in the chair, but tensed and ready just in case it turns out that the chair becomes untrustworthy and falls over.
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This is what it means to have biblical faith in God. It means a knowledge of God and who he is in his character and actions, and resting in that knowledge from day to day.
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This is what it means to have biblical faith in God. It means a knowledge of God and who he is in his character and actions, and resting in that knowledge from day to day. It also implies belief without the need for facts or rationality.  
    
==Faith and Knowledge==
 
==Faith and Knowledge==
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