• The Substance Of Faith

  Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Mar 1, 2012 (message contributor)

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THE SUBSTANCE OF FAITH

Example: Give some play-doh to 2 people and ask them to create something out of that "substance"

In the millennia-old Aristotelian tradition, as well as early modern traditions that follow it, substances or ousia are treated as having attributes and modes or things.

This concept helps to explain, for instance, state transitions. Let us take a quantity of water and freeze it into ice. Substance theory maintains that there is a "substance" which is unchanged through this transition, which is both the liquid water and also the frozen ice. It maintains that the water is not replaced by the ice – it is the same "stuff," or substance. If this is true, then it must be the case that the wetness of water, the hardness of ice, are not essential to the underlying substance. (Essentially, matter does not disappear, it only changes form.)

According to the Bible Faith is THE substance of THINGS we hope for.