HEART FAITH VS HEAD FAITH

For with the HEART man BELIEVETH unto righteousness; and with the MOUTH CONFESSION is made unto salvation – Romans 10:10

Real Faith is HEART-BASED. Genuine Faith is HEART FAITH. It flows from and deals with the spirit or heart of man. Heart Faith belongs only to the New Creations in Christ Jesus, the children of God, those who have been born-again, those who have received the Gift of Salvation by Faith (Eph.2:8-9). Heart Faith is spiritual and heavenly. It is the faith that belongs to whosoever is born of God. That’s why the world and the devil have no answer to this kind of Faith. It is the VICTORY that overcomes the world (1Jh.5:4). Heart Faith is relationship-based. It centres on God and on things of eternal value!

Head Faith is BRAIN-BASED and SENSE-CENTRED. Every human being has a natural human ‘faith’ whether they are saved or not. Every human being can believe whatever they choose to. They believe in something or another naturally. They may even know what the Bible says and assent to the Word of God mentally. Head Faith is mere mental assent that may quote and confess with the mouth, but fails to believe from the heart. Romans 10:9 says: “That if thou shalt CONFESS with thy MOUTH…and shalt BELIEVE in thine HEART…” Head faith resides in the ‘head’ – the reasoning faculty; it doesn’t emanate from the HEART. It centres on human experiences and focuses on MAN, carnal, earthly and mundane issues.

Faith is a matter of the HEART, not of the HEAD. “…The just shall live by HIS FAITH” (Hab.2:4b). Faith is a non-transferable responsibility. You do not live by another person’s faith and certainly not by a denominational doctrine!