Jesus told the ruler, Do...
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Jesus told the ruler, "Do not fear, only believe." The report that his daughter was dead had reached them while they were still some distance from his home. Jesus was on his way, but apparently too late. Jesus doesn't say, "I'm still coming to your house." Jesus didn't say, "I will heal your daughter, or better yet, raise her from the dead." Simply, "Do not fear, only believe."
William James, an American philosopher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, wrote in an article published in Princeton Review (1882), titled, "The Sentiment of Rationality," that "Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act; one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance."
William James, an American philosopher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, wrote in an article published in Princeton Review (1882), titled, "The Sentiment of Rationality," that "Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act; one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance."
