What Is It To Believe?

Acts 16:30-32, 34, “And brought them out, and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved’? And they said. ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.’ And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house…And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.”

Paul and Silas…telling, evangelizing, sharing the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the jailer and all his house believed. The Greek: pisteuo, to entrust one's spiritual well-being to Jesus.

There are nine other Greek words in the New Testament translated believe, believed, believest, believeth, and believing. These all have different meanings than pisteuo, with different uses in communicating with someone. In the Greek (the language of the New Testament), to believe in Jesus Christ was pisteuo. A commitment of trust in Christ’s death on His Cross as the only payment for sin that God would accept.

One must pisteuo to become a Saint. It is more than a mental assent.