John's lesson is quite plain. The evidence he presents is sufficient to conclude that Jesus was the Son of God. In the same way Nicodemus used reason and his observations of the life Christ to draw the conclusion that God was with Jesus in a way that He had never been with anyone else. By examining the Bible, and comparing it to what it says about itself, the real world, and what we deduce an inspired document should be, we can come to the conclusion that it is the divinely inspired word of God. Faith Faith, produced by both physical evidence and rational thought, is the third building block in our illustration.
Faith is a very broad term.
This last area is one that needs further explanation. Faith and knowledge are not two widely divergent perspectives, as some suppose, but rather two parallel facets of the same enterprise. Belief without proof is foreign to the biblical concept of saving faith. Our faith is proven true by the sensory and rational analysis of our world. Hope The fourth building block, hope, rests squarely upon the biblical concept of faith we just described.