If Jesus Said It, His Word Cannot Lie

Defined as a complete trust in people, faith prevails as an essential quality for the development of interpersonal and personal connections. Accordingly, John Brehm, author of “Sea of Faith,” illustrates a scholar experience in a freshman class. A teacher, which the reader implies as Brehm himself, becomes irritated at the lack of knowledge in his students at such a simple topic: figurative language. Disgruntled at the question he begins to examine the significance behind it. Ultimately, after self-examination, he comes to understand the young lady who posed the question that annoyed him (1000). Through the use of literary devices such as personification, tone, and comparison: the author illustrates the changing perspective and ultimate connection the teacher makes with the students as he realizes the positivity that arises from faith.

Faith plays a big part in the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel. Elie seemed to have more faith in humanity and God than those who were older than him. Yet when when he and his family enter the concentration camps that faith disappeared. The faith he had in God, Humanity and including himself were gone.

Many people would agree that without faith, the world would be in chaos. The book Christian Foundation by Kathleen Fischer and Thomas Hart gives an interpretation on faith in our time. Many people would question the definition of faith. Faith is a gift, which is given by God to have trust in him and belief in him. This book is a great entry in anyone's life that has speculation on his or her own faith. The book has many ways into understanding ones own religion. It discusses the Bible, Jesus, Church, God's existence and Images of God. All of these chapters helped me get a better interpretation of what my religion entailed.

K. Last night I called him and said I wish there was a way of repaying him for the life he’s given me.

Faith is something that everyone should have. Faith isn’t something that you can just throw away and expect to get it back in the future easily. No, faith is something that can't be gained easily once lost. In the book Night, a boy named Elie starts to lose faith as days pass while he is in the concentration camp. He loses faith in himself, and others. Elie losing faith could be a really bad thing that could’ve resulted in him harming himself.

“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.” Whether provoked by doctor’s grim diagnosis or inspired by something else, these words of Flannery O’Connor are a good example of how one should always follow this rule in order to meet their expectations of life. However, it is in our human nature to think, dream, and imagine things that are far from our knowledge. O’Connor’s “Good Country People” tells the story of Hulga, a girl with an artificial leg who loses it after blindly believing the lies of astute Manley Pointer, a Bible salesman. Using the example of Hulga, “Good Country People” proves how unrealistic expectations can lead to unhappiness and dissatisfaction. This happens because faith does not play a role

“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns” (Anne Lamott Quotes). Unbroken, book by Laura Hillenbrand, shows the truthful of this quote. The novel is about Olympic runner and hero of the war Louie Zamperini. He survived a lot of inhuman and cruel harassments during WWII, simply believing and hoping for better times and victory of his country. By Louie’s example, author shows how faith can help to survive even in the most hopeless, wild, terrible, difficult and hard situations that can face people during their lives.

Faith is having a strong belief in something or particularly God. In Night, Elie loses faith in God gradually throughout the book. In the beginning of the book [before the Nazis came] he had strong faith in God. Elie said,

Faithful Doubt In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, uses many literary techniques to describe his hard times through the Holocaust. He has hard times of not knowing what to do, whether he wants to live or give up. He does not know when to continue through the hard times when he almost has to have his foot lanced or when his father got sick as to whether he should take his fathers ration of bread. A verse from the bible states “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

Voltaire once said, “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe”. Elie Wiesel in the story Night begins go against this quote as he starts to lose his faith after seeing how cruel the world can be to innocent people. During his experiences in the concentration camps, Elie Wiesel loses faith in his fellow man and in God. He shows this through his thoughts and actions.

He first had strong faith, the confused about his faith and lastly, lost his faith. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, faith was a motif of the silence of God. In Night, Elie shows off how much he believes in God and how his faith is strong. Elie tries to be all religious when it comes to God. He tries to show everyone that believes in him.

One of my favorite parts about my granddad particularly was how he always had something inspiring to say to me every day to keep me going. Sometimes it feels like he’s still inspiring me today while in heaven. I believe I would be struggling more if I didn’t have him around when I was little. He was the only father that was there for me when needed most. I miss him all the time, but

In addition to not seeing the beauty in religion, Charles finds people’s belief of God in vain and does not see why they put their trust in Him and thinks that “you can’t believe things because they are a lovely idea” (96) when he is speaking to Sebastian about the story of the birth of Christ. Waugh shows that faith needs to be more than just thinking that something is wonderful, but believing in it with your whole heart, mind, and soul.

About a year after being diagnosed, his doctor told him that he was cancer free. He was so happy; his face was all smiles. I had never seen him so happy in his entire life. It was such a beautiful sight seeing my old mans face that lit up, he told everyone that he was cancer free. I was so proud of my father for being that strong, cancer couldn't even bring him down.

These two books basically walked through the Old Testament giving a very brief overview of what happened and how it points to Christ, before and after His incarnation. While they both went through telling a story, Roberts was more concerned with treating Scripture as a metanarrative. He walked through giving points to show how the story was being developed. His concern was for the Kingdom of God. Clowney, on the other hand, was not so much concerned with how the Scripture was connected to itself but how the major characters in the Old Testament foreshadowed how Christ would be. He basically walked through how each character used by God fell short of their calling, not enough to not fulfill their purpose, but enough to not stand as perfect before