It will be a grand day for Christianity when it ditches its obsession with belief and rediscovers the centrality of faith. It's faith that matters, not belief, and the two have become hopelessly confused in the minds of Christians and atheists alike. Among them was ''faith'', signifying trust, loyalty and commitment - exactly what the English meant by belief. Where once there was an obvious link between belief and believe, the noun faith had no matching verb. In the following centuries the meaning of ''belief'' and ''believe'' underwent a sea-change.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 09, 2018 17:00 UTC