It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres…. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. — 1 Corinthians 13:6-7, 13 NIV. Scott and I began to notice a trend about four weeks into COVID-19 lockdown: Monday had become Glum-day for us both. For most of our nearly 30 years It is the first of the theological virtues: "So faith, hope, charity abide, these three. But the greatest of these is charity." The practice of all the virtues is animated and inspired by charity, which "binds everything together in perfect harmony. Charity upholds and purifies our human ability to love, and raises it to the supernatural Faith – Theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all He has said and revealed to us. “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen.”. ( Hebrews 11:1) Hope – Theological virtue by which we desire the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s Work in faith, labor in love, and have endurance in hope, all found in Jesus. And now if you believe in Jesus Christ and confess He is Lord over your life, you are saved and the Holy Spirit is the seal put on you affirming this. God doesn’t want you to walk in confusion but He has chosen you. Believe it.
Rather than three foundations we have three courses of the building here; the lowest one, faith; the next one, love; and the top one, hope. The order in 1 Corinthians is different, 'faith, hope, charity,' and the alteration in the sequence is suggested by the difference of purpose. The Apostle intended in 1 Corinthians to dwell at some length
Calvin sees Christianity as revolving around the three classic Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love. These virtues constitute the core of what makes up the Christian faith. Later in his commentary, Calvin reflects on 1 Thessalonians 3:6, specifically Timothy’s report of the Thessalonians’ “faith and love.”. About this book. These essays consider the three traditional theological virtues—faith, hope, and love—alongside their opposites—doubt, despair, and hate, from a scholarly perspective. The volume includes contributions not just from philosophers of religion, but also from psychologists, sociologists, and film and literature scholars, to jGLHq.
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