Objection: Faith Literally Means Belief or Trust; It Does Not “Do” Anything

Jesus is recorded as telling people that their faith had made them whole. Making someone whole certainly sounds like “doing something” to me!

Certainly, it qualified as belief or trust in who Jesus was (the Anointed One), but the objection in question goes on to say that faith is “passive.”  It didn’t seem passive when it made people whole!  That sounds like the opposite of passivity to me!  Faith does not wait passively for God to decide whether or not He will grant something.  Faith TAKES what God offers.  That isn’t passive.  If you believe that you have to be passive about your healing, you believe that it is all up to God (also covered elsewhere) – and you won’t get healed!

The objector may be concerned that “doing things with faith” is cultic and cuts God out of things, and that matter is handled elsewhere.