Monday, May 23, 2011

Elshof: acting consistently with belief

In response to the claim "I have trouble acting out my beliefs", Elshof says:

But with very few exceptions, no one has any trouble in acting out their beliefs. You do act in accordance with your beliefs.  More likely, you just don't believe what you've thought of yourself as believing.  Rather than trying to work up behaviour consistent with what we think we believe, we should be begging with the man who wanted desperately for Jesus to free his son from the demon that possessed him, "I believe;  help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24)

I Told Me So, p21.

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