Faith is convicted trust, not vague belief. Faith is a placing of hopes in such a way that hope gets redefined. In the Scriptures, hope does not have the connotation of “I hope such and such will happen,” as if there is some chance it may not. No, in the Scriptures, hope is an assured trust. Our hope is Christ, and this hope will prove true; it

“To believe in Christ for salvation,” he says, “means to have confidence that He can remove the guilt of sin and give eternal life [read heaven]. It means to believe that He can solve the problem of sin [read guilt] which is what keeps a person out of heaven.”13