When it comes to a definition of faith people have many different ideas. Today faith is used to refer to a belief system but that is not the Biblical view. Neither is Huckleberry Finn's view who said, "Faith is believing something you know ain't true."
Faith isn't believing the impossible but believing in a person, the Person Jesus Christ the Son. Remember the writer of Hebrews says that faith is believing the promises of God. We know that we do not live on facts but on promises.
John talks about a faith that overcomes the world. It isn't faith in faith, or just believing hard enough but believing that Jesus Christ came into the world to die upon the cross. At that point Satan was defeated forever and we became overcomers.
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