Faith is a personal judgment.

You cannot believe something that you do not think is true.

You have judged it to be true, so you believe it.

If you judge it to be false you are not able to believe it.

Therefore you are personally responsible for your own beliefs because they are your personal judgments.

Faith has different objects

One can believe facts.

One can believe people, which involves trusting them.

Those who do not believe in God have judged Him either not to exist or that He is not trustworthy.

Those who do not believe the Bible have judged it to be false, untrustworthy, or at least not the Word of God.

These are personal judgments, and you are responsible for your own judgments.

There are different types of faith

Blind faith believes something without sufficient evidence.

Historical faith judges something occurred in history, in the past. Others may judge the same event to be a fable or a legend. These are personal judgments.

Saving faith judges the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be true, giving assent or agreement to its trustworthiness, which leads to trust in Jesus Christ as one’s own Saviour and Redeemer. The Christian Bible teaches that this conviction is not a natural effect but it arises from God’s Holy Spirit Jn 16:7-14 bringing a person to trust in Jesus Christ 1Jn 5:1 as a gift from God Eph 2:8.

Temporary faith lasts only as long as a person thinks or judges something is true.

Faith in its various forms are personal judgments. Unbelief is the personal judgment that something is untrue or that someone is untrustworthy with respect to the matter under consideration.

Those who judge themselves scientifically minded and who don’t believe in “faith” are showing that they are so scientifically focussed that they have not considered some of the basic features of ordinary human behaviour. They have missed the forest by focussing on the trees.

Links:

18 Jun 2011: the difference between faith and assurance.

18 Jun 2011: faith has different objects.

27 Mar 2013: what did Jesus really say?