The demons believe in God. It terrifies them.
James pointed this out to show that mental assent isn't what saves you. Correct theology doesn't matter if it doesn't change how you live.
So what is faith, if not "believing the right things"?
Make Believe excavates the biblical word pistis—usually translated "faith"—and discovers it was never about intellectual certainty. It's about trust, allegiance, faithfulness. It's facing a direction, not checking doctrinal boxes.
The Apostles' Creed wasn't a loyalty test. It was a baptismal confession: whose you are, not proof you've figured everything out.
This book traces how Christianity reduced faith to propositions—and how that reduction leaves honest doubters trapped between fundamentalism and abandonment. But Scripture never asked for certainty. It asked for trust enacted, allegiance embodied, faithfulness lived.
For readers full of questions but still showing up, unable to check theological boxes but still oriented toward Jesus.
