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 ** What faith means ... **
-We call someone a "deist" who things that there is a God. In this sense Christians and Jews and Muslims
+We call someone a "deist" who thinks that there is a God. In this sense Christians and Jews and Muslims
 are deists. But they are much more, not only deists. A deist can be completely disconnected from the
-God he things who exists.
+God he thinks to exists.
 Faith as understood in the bibliclal books is not just an opinion about truth. It is a personal way
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 But then, you still need to enter yourself!
-Now, is it true?
+Now, is it true? That is, of course, the crucial question. It it true that Jesus is who he claimed
+to be? Is he the one which the gospel claims he is? To find out you need to read the gospels and the
+letters of the New Testament. You need to check it out yourself. Only you can make the decision,
+since it is your trust which he asks for - not the trust of anyone else. You need to see whether the
+story of faith, of salvation, of truth and love and origin as told by the Old and New Testament
+is convincing to you. To me, it was and it is - and after I started to understand the message of Jesus
+I did not have a real choice,  I had to become a Christian, a believer.
 (Roland Potthast)
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