The New Testament exhorts people not to faith in the modern sense but to trust or have confidence in Jesus’ powers and hence in his divinity. Such trust may involve love or affection, but it is more like a disposition than an emotion; it is cognitive in nature and based on a mutual recognition of trustworthiness.
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