The Importance Of False Faith

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The devil is always roaming the world to tempt us and to sabotage our faith in God, but God uses multiple tests to develop our faith in Him. We as a human being must be tested by faith for God to trust us with His word. False faith fails at times of us being tested in our trial, but crazy faith helps us to grow and mature in areas to edify God 's Kingdom. Faith clarifies why God authorized the three "black" Hebrew men who names were, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be tested by their faith. God also consented for them to be thrown into the fiery furnace for their faith to be developed. In 1 Peter 1:7 says, “These have come so that your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and …show more content…
I am pretty sure that women in Nebuchadnezzar camp were more submissive than the men were. I have seen many incidents where a lot of the women were sitting down or thrown out of the church than men. If a woman stood up for herself and saw that things were not operating in the church based on the Bible, the leader will think the woman was attacking his integrity. Based on Scripture, in Genesis 1:27, "he created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (NIV) It is saying that there are more women in the church than men and also men tend to hold things on the low. Also, it is said that the head of every woman is the man. The head of every wife is the husband. Sandy Simpson says, “This verse is telling specifically about the husband and wife. But in a larger sense, the head of the man is Christ, the head of the woman is a man. The Bible teaches that Christ is the first head of a man, the Christian husband the second head under Christ, with the elders of the church the third authority in the life of every Christian woman." (pg. 1) Faith plays a part of the woman to be strong in her faith. Many women in the church today no longer submit to their husband. Prophecy has shown itself in the black church that women are more prompt to be lead by the Holy …show more content…
He threatens the people by letting them know if they do not bow down to the golden image it will take me a matter of life or death. Even though the people used to worship a false god, so the command was easy for them to obey. African Americans analogy thinks that between a true believer and an unbeliever its recognize as faith because everybody lives by faith in other things. The diversity is the object of the faith. The people believed in the king so therefore, they obeyed. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego believed the order of God, so they disobeyed. The people believed faith, but the Hebrew men had crazy faith. Philosopher and Psychologist William James, said, "Faith is one of the forces by which men live,” People act by faith in getting on an airplane, driving a car, or going hang gliding. Many of the slaves had to live by faith every day, and it was a matter of life or death if they did not obey their masters. The “Underground Railroad” television series and it is how each African American had to walk on eggshells to make sure they kept their master

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