AE 802 - To Believe or To Believe In

 AE 802 [7]

. . . it is to be noted that
it is one thing to believe a person
and another thing to believe in him;
as to believe that there is a God
and to believe in Him.
To believe in God or in His name
means both to do and to have faith, as in John:

As many as received Him,
to them gave He power to become sons of God,
to them that believe in His name;
who were born,
not of bloods nor of the will of the flesh
nor of the will of man (vir),
but of God.
(John 1:12, 13).

Those born "not of bloods"
are those who do not falsify the Word;
those born "not of the will of the flesh"
are those who are not in lusts from love of self;
those born "not of the will of man"
are those who are not in falsities
from the pride of self-intelligence;
those "born of God"
are those who are regenerated by the Lord
by means of truths from the Word
and a life according to them;
these are they who believe in the name of the Lord,
and from that are called "sons of God."
Such a faith
is not the faith
of the teachers of the church at this day.