Christianity is categorized as a faith based religion. Before the Reformation this really was not the case because everyone was baptized at birth and you simply were part of the church. But ever since the Reformation and the questioning of church authority saw Luther highlighting the text in Romans 3:28 “… a man is justified by faith”, by adding to it the word “only”, the fixation of the church has been upon faith. That is faith as opposed to works. What this has resulted in has been an eruption of men who claim to have faith but reveal nothing of the works that necessarily flow from real faith. We have the spectacle of members of different denominations joining themselves together, in a spirit of ecumenicalism, proclaiming themselves to be fellow Christians but living divided because of doctrinal differences. We see the arguments between so called fundamentalists and so called liberal Christians over what is essential belief. We see the secular argument that you can either have reason or faith but not both. We see street preachers literally stand on a bible and say they are standing on the word of God. There is so much confusion, so much hokum, that for there to be any such thing as true faith it must be, by and large, hidden from the hearts and minds of those who profess themselves to be Christian. This then is an exploration into what it means to have faith.