WHAT IS REAL BELIEF?

A study by Brandon Davidson ...

Definition: Scriptural Belief

Scriptural belief is not mental agreement, opinion, or doctrinal alignment.

Scriptural belief is active trust that produces obedience, alignment, and transformed behaviour.

In Scripture, to believe means:

• to entrust oneself

• to lean one’s weight upon

• to act as if something is true

• to live in response to what is heard

Belief is proven only by action, endurance, and fruit.

Anything that does not change behaviour is not belief, no matter how sincere it sounds.

Scriptures Defining Scriptural Belief

1. Belief as Obedient Action

Genesis 15:6

“And Abram believed Yahuah, and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.”

Abram’s belief was not a thought — it was a life of obedience that followed.

Righteousness was credited because he trusted and acted.

2. Belief Requires Alignment, Not Words

Deuteronomy 30:14

“But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, to do it.”

Belief is not merely knowing the word — it is doing it.

Scriptural belief always moves from heart → mouth → action.

3. Belief That Does Not Act Is Dead

James 2:17

“Thus also belief, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.”

Scripture does not argue this point.

Belief without behavioural expression is lifeless.

4. Belief Means Hearing and Following

John 10:27

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”

Belief is recognition + response.

Those who truly believe hear His voice and follow, not merely agree.

5. Belief Is Proven by Endurance

Matthew 24:13

“But the one who endures to the end shall be delivered.”

Belief is not proven at the beginning —it is proven under pressure, over time, through endurance.

6. Belief Results in Transformation

Romans 12:2

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect desire of Alahim.”

Belief transforms perception, thinking, and behaviour.

If nothing changes, belief has not occurred.

Hebrews 11:1 “Now belief is the substance of what is expected, the evidence of matters not seen.”

This verse shows that scriptural belief is not imagination or wishful thinking. It is:

• Substance — something real and active

• Evidence — something that proves itself

• Concerning what is not yet visible, but becomes visible through obedience, endurance, and behaviour

In Scripture, belief makes the unseen govern how a person lives now.

Summary Statement

Scriptural belief is lived trust.

It hears, yields, follows, endures, and bears fruit.

Agreement is not belief.

Emotion is not belief.

Tradition is not belief.

Only obedient, enduring, transformed trust qualifies as belief in Scripture.