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Jesus and the Inner Life

What is the difference between belief and faith?

Belief is accepting a teaching as true. The Urantia Book draws the line higher: belief becomes faith only when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. Belief fixates and holds; faith liberates. You can hold beliefs all day; faith is what holds you.

In the book's own words

Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living. Faith is a living attribute of genuine personal religious experience. One believes truth, admires beauty, and reverences goodness, but does not worship them; such an attitude of saving faith is centered on God alone, who is all of these personified and infinitely more.

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