What is faith?
How are you saved? How do you know God is real? How do you believe the Bible is actually true and not just a cluster of stories? The answer to all of these is FAITH. What is faith you ask? Hebrews 11:1 says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith is the determining factor to your belief in God. You cannot obtain salvation unless you have faith which is in Ephesians 2:8-9. You cannot please God without faith which is Hebrews 11:6. Do you know if you have faith? Yes, everyone does. Notice that Hebrews 11:1 does not say faith is only about God or salvation or the Bible. But it just gives the general word "things." So yes, the unbeliever has faith but that faith is not in God. It may just be for things they want or need. In Romans 12:3 God gave everyone "the measure of faith," meaning you are born with just as much faith as everyone else is born with. Let's say you are born with 2% fait