TRUE faith

I must admit that True Faith by New Order is probably my favorite song of all time, but I still haven't realized the great ideas encapsuled in that song, which will likely occur to me one day as I ponder how the song got it's name. Originally, I just liked it cause something about the video struck me as incredible... I digress... 

So I was thinking heartily about faith and what I wanted to teach about it and I realized a huge shift in understanding hinged on the word "true". It is  memorized by most Latter-day Saints that Alma taught that faith is a knowledge of things not seen which are true. Now, let's journey back in time...

Still with me? ok. It was a Stake Conference maybe a few years ago, I was growing upset because typically, every single word spoken is dead on with my notions of w hat is true, but when they proceeded to talk about and establish what faith was, I got a bit upset, because I had always thought that faith was knowing something you cannot prove, so any belief was faith, but every single definition that they gave was a definition of faith in Christ. I accepted that it was most essential of any other faith and of course "faith in Christ" would be the subject at a meeting of faithful members of Christ's church, but I felt like because it did not click when they defined Faith as being Faith in Christ, Someone ought to be made aware of this "injustice". But, just as I was feeling that argumentative feeling start back up I realized that I would be sure not to err in teaching faith in that manner. To my surprise, when I was thinking about how I would present an object lesson for my kids to first understand the concept of faith. 

I set out  to define it precisely. I started with a scripture in Alma (whom I dearly love as a great teacher and purveyor of truth) that stated:

And now as I said concerning faith—^afaith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye ^bhope for things which are ^cnot seen, which are true.

I realized instantly and everything clicked. I knew that the things I had been taught were not biased, but according to this scripture merely believing a thing not seen is not faith. It is only faith if it is true, and the only true thing is Jesus Christ, so believing in Christ IS faith, believe in other things is merely belief. It seems I had been wrong in my definition which is why the two definitions (the one I had vs. the one presented) caused discord, but this evening, my peace of mind has been increased greatly due to a single word that I had over looked -- this is similar to how it is commonly quoted that Money is the root of all evil,when truthfully it is the LOVE of money that is the root of evil.