Believing vs. "Believing in"?

Believe in is usually used when there is nothing to prove it.

Well i dont know if its the main argument but i know its something that comes up alot. But i honestly think the advantage that christians have over atheists is that they have already experienced both point of views lol. In that they have seen a need or reasons to believe and after believing they only saw more..... lol

To believe means to accept facts as truth.

To believe in means to put your trust in the truth.

If I told you that I could walk a tight rope accross the Grand Canyon, you would have no reason not to believe me.

If I asked you to jump on my shoulders and let me carry you accross, if you believed "in" me, then you would trust me to carry you safely to the other side.

They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand. So God said, in effect, "If that's what you want, that's what you get." It wasn't long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them - the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes! Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn't know how to be human either - women didn't know how to be women, men didn't know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men - all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it - emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches. Since they didn't bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it's not as if they don't know better. They know perfectly well they're spitting in God's face. And they don't care - worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!

@"How is "believing in" something different from "believing" something? How does one "believe in"? I never got the hang of it."

You still trying to MIX (human logic) with a [SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING].

Can't happen.

The carnal mind can't possibly understand or want to.

True "Believing" (using Faith), means that you Believe (and Believe in it Too!!!), Then, IT Comes to Pass.

But your Question is Intrigue, ing.---if your Not Believing in "Faith", according to The Bible.

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I believe Jesus existed as a guy who claimed to be the Son of God BUT i dont believe in Jesus ie that he is the son of God.

Im a catholic so i believe IN him, but it was just an example.

tsk, tsk.