Faith

In the English Holy Bible, believe is the verb form, and faith is the noun form of what is basically the same Greek word meaning to trust and be committed to; less importantly, it can mean persuasion, confidence, and assurance. The Old Testament is full of exhortations to trust God. Faith is rarely used to translate the Hebrew, but the trust is the same as faith in the New Testament where that word is widely used. Faith is not just persuasion, but an act of the will, a choice we make, and must make, to trust in God and Christ, even in the face of apparently absent or contrary evidence.