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Nuggets from “An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith” by Dave Hunt – Is There a “Law of Faith”?

The idea persists that faith is believing something strongly enough to make it happen. This delusion is usually found among those who imagine they hold to a scientific religion. Science works according to consistent laws. It is commonly taught, especially by those in the so-called faith movement, that there is a “law of faith” that works like gravity or thermodynamics, and if we obey that law, what we desire will be granted as automatically as the predictable reaction between chemicals in a test tube. “Faith” is thus seen as a force we can wield to get what we want rather than a trust in God to effect what is best according to His will. There is a great difference.

This self-centered belief has at least four problems:

  1. The Christian is “not under the law but under grace” (Romans:6:14), yet grace has no part to play in this supposed law of faith;
  2. The Bible never even hints that the realm of the spirit is governed by laws similar to those governing the physical realm;
  3. The physical laws God has established are intended to control man (even Adam and Eve were subject to them) and to limit what we can do with God’s universe, but this presumed law of faith does just the opposite. It allows each person to become a “god” waving a magic wand over the physical universe – and thus does not fit the pattern of physical laws that God has established; and
  4. The very heart of the prayer pattern Jesus taught His disciples is, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew:6:10), but the imagined “law of faith” would accomplish just the opposite, gaining for man the desires of his own will. Indeed, the teachers in this movement insist that it destroys faith to pray “if it be thy [God’s] will.”