Faith

     Faith is a word, a word that can often be misunderstood.
     Faith is not a religion, nor a religious system of beliefs.
     Faith should not be confused with choice.
     To me, I believe faith is a gift of God, freely given to every human being.  Faith then separates humans from animals because animals have instincts, not faith.
     Therefore being born with faith, we can use our faith to believe and make choices.
     By faith, I can choose to believe in God, or, with the same faith, I can choose not  to believe in God.
     By faith, I can believe that something is true, and, with the same faith, I can believe that something is not true.
     I will never have any more faith than I have now and neither will I ever have any less.  I do not have any more or less faith than you and you do not have any more or less faith than me.
     Changing my choices does not mean changing my faith since faith is unchangeable.
     Since we do not have instincts, we are not born to be religious, nor of a certain religious persuasion; for religion is learned, not inborn. 
     Therefore by faith I believe in God, by faith I believe in Jesus Christ, and by faith I believe in a book we call the Bible.  These are my choices.
     By faith, too, I believed I could play golf, but only when I began to swing clubs and hit golf balls did I excercise my choice and playing golf became a reality.
     Going further, by faith we can take invisible ideas from our minds and transform them to the visible and create automobiles, elevators, books, medicines, etc.  Writing a blog was an idea I had in my mind, but had I not chosen to exercise my choice by action, my blog would still be in my mind.
     In conclusion, "Now then faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."  (Book of Hebrews 11:1)