The whole world suffers from belief and is in great need of Faith. Most people take Belief and Faith as synonymous, and this is where the trouble begins; the dictionaries are wrong to describe them as synonyms; they are actually antonyms, because Belief exists where there is no knowledge, no direct, personal experience of the object of Belief, while Faith, on the contrary, arises from knowledge, from direct contact with and experience of the object, whatever it might be. Thus, the old saying: "Seeing is believing", is not true; seeing is knowing; believing is not knowing!

     In Europe, during the Middle Ages, most people believed that sickness was caused by demons, and Satan—the Devil—was a very real person to them. Nowadays, although many Christians still believe in Satan as a person, they would hardly answer "Yes" if asked: "You say you believe in Satan, but do you have faith in him?" In this way, they might recognize the difference between Belief and Faith.