This might be how we think about the process of believing, but this is not how the shift of belief happens at all. Point to the risen Christ. The reply to this challedge cannot be that I believe in the resurrection of Christ because I wish him to have done so and it pleases me to think that he did. Such a reply does not warrant a sympathic hearing from the skeptic. To say that one believes in the resurrection of Christ is to signify a way of viewing the world and to testify to a relationship.
Christians live in relationship to the central truths of their faith.
The beliefs of the Church are written in the creeds. We should understand belief as the action of living in response to . We cannot properly believe without assuming the therefore and following through with it. A belief statement is always about responses and actions. Rarely do we believe something for the sake of simply believing it or saying that we do.