Belief For Faith

Galations gives us a good example that belief is necessary to fulfill faith, but faith is not belief alone.

Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified

Believing in Jesus as Christ is a means by which we come to be justified by the faith of Christ. It is a means not an end.

They are two separate things in this verse.

1. Belief on Christ is faith in him as Christ, his basis of authority.

2. The faith of Christ is his word to us. The faith originating in him.

One is necessary to fulfill the other, as the word that points out.

Greek actually can be "in order that".

This shows belief only to be false on several levels, belief in Jesus being necessary, but not the completion of justification, it is by exercising belief in Christ in fulfilling the faith of Christ.

The term faith often speaks of the system of faith, that is true here.

This is a very misused passage.

It also disproves Catholicism, showing belief is necessary, can't be justified without your own personal faith.