Many "believe in god". If you stumble on some college campus, or just out and about, or at some family get together and casually ask, "Do you believe in god?" Many will say a general, "yes."
A lot of people "believe in god", ie., in a "higher power" AND/OR, if they're a bit more fancy, a particular premier avatar, "force", "higher power". . . .
Many have ideas and thoughts and experiences of "god". Well, and then, there are those who are determined to not believe in any god. . . .
The Holy Spirit--the actual real and 1/3rd Person of the only one trinitarian God--indwelt . . . says, "it's one thing to 'believe in god', but YOU OUGHT BELIEVE GOD!"
And while He is indeed found within the experiences of life, and feelings, and signs etc., (for He is so ubiquitous and involved and caring about every single imaginable detail of existence and being, that everyone has a sense of Him and has no excuse. Rom. 1:20) . . . HE GAVE US HIS WORD!
THAT is what/Who we check it all against; against all of the fake-out ideas, cultish manipulations, creepy church pastors, new age knuckleheads, Satanists parading et al.
Many are called (by some sort of "god" or another) and will believe in "god".
The difference is--as one is enlightened by The Spirit Of Truth, The Holy Spirit, God--to rightly divide The Word . . . BELIEVING GOD vs. believing in "god", is where --to put it in laymen's terms--"the rubber meets The Road."
"Believing in (a) god" vs. BELIVING GOD is a concept and divine proposition that is eternally worthy of thought, prayer, mediation and discernment.
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