| Thinking, reason, study and the mind have less | | | | - Mind: 137 verses |
| than 1/10 the verses that faith, hope, love and | | | | Total Verses: 316 verses |
| heart/spirit have! | | | | Summary: |
| And now ABIDE faith, hope, love, these three; | | | | From the heart/spirit (1545 verses) spring the |
| but the greatest of these is love (1 Cor. 13:13) | | | | issues of life (Prov. 4:23) which are Faith, hope |
| Following is a study of the three abiding realities | | | | and love (2375 verses). Total verses on the heart |
| and what these abiding realities are present to | | | | spirit and the three “abiding” heart |
| heal - their opposites. “*” is a wildcard, | | | | attitudes are 3920 (nearly 4000 verses!). |
| meaning any ending is acceptable on the word. | | | | From the mind (137 verses) come thinking, |
| FAITH Theme (Verses) | | | | reason and study (179 verses). Total verses on |
| - Faith: 360 | | | | mind realities are 316 (less than 400 verses). |
| - Believe: 314 | | | | So, why do Christian colleges and online Bible |
| - Unbelie: 26 | | | | colleges teach to the mind? Why do Christian |
| - Fear: 524 | | | | churches focus so much on reason? Perhaps the |
| Total Verses: 1224 | | | | western culture has it backward, when it chooses |
| HOPE Theme (Verses) | | | | to train and live out of the mind and neglect the |
| - Hope: 142 | | | | heart and the spirit. For thinking, reason, study |
| - Doubt: 33 | | | | and the mind have less than 1/10 the verses that |
| Total Verses: 175 | | | | faith, hope, love and heart/spirit have. The |
| LOVE Theme (Verses) | | | | “Law of Proportion” says that “an |
| - Love: 522 | | | | author reveals his emphasis or lack of it, by the |
| - Charit: 29 | | | | relative amount of treatment given to a specific |
| - Anger: 235 | | | | subject.” |
| - hate: 190 | | | | God releases His life through union with |
| Total Verses: 976 | | | | man’s’ spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). The heart is |
| There are 2375 verses in the Bible on above | | | | healed of its negative attitudes when one calls out |
| themes. These three themes (faith, hope and | | | | to God to heal it. Create in me a clean heart, O |
| love) deal with issues which spring from the heart | | | | God; and renew a right spirit within me (Ps. 51:10). |
| and the spirit. The Bible contains 963 verses on | | | | Also note that God’s truth is a “spirit of |
| the Heart*, and 582 verses on the spirit*. | | | | truth (Jn. 16:13),” God’s wisdom is a |
| Together they total 1545 verses on heart and | | | | “spirit of wisdom (Isa. 11:2),” God’s |
| spirit. | | | | knowledge is a “spirit of knowledge (I Cor. |
| Compared to: | | | | 12:8),” and that God’s creativity comes |
| - Think: 82 verses | | | | through the heart of man (Ex. 15:31). Perhaps |
| - Stud: 6 verses | | | | that’s why Einstein said, “I want to know |
| - Reason: 91 verses | | | | God’s thoughts, the rest are details. |