To have knowledge of a subject neither demands nor requires belief. For example, there are professors of theology who don’t believe. Likewise, to have comprehension of God’s Word sans its application is akin to having a theology without belief.

 Theology – 1  The study of religion, culminating in a synthesis or philosophy of religion.  2  A body of doctrines concerning God, including his attributes and relations with man.1

James, half-brother of the Lord Jesus, refers to the comprehension and application of the “faultless law of liberty” (the Holy Bible) as hearing and doing: “Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like. But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.” James 1:22-25 (MSG)

The Angel of God said, “For nothing is impossible with God” Luke 1:37; and Jesus the Anointed One and His Anointing said, “with God all things are possible” Matthew 19:26. However, a significant number of Believers may confess or affirm: “all things are possible with God” and in the very same breath or seconds later say: “that man is beyond help”. Such exemplifies having a theology sans belief because it clearly speaks unbelief in the power of the Sovereign Lord God Almighty in regard to that person.

Although God created man with free-will, a Believer may pray/ask God through prayers of intercession and/or supplication to give that person revelation. As it is written, those in positions of authority or leadership have great need for the wisdom that enables decision-making consistent with God’s way of doing. The One who is Omniscient is prepared to release the answer for any problem. The One who is Omnipotent doesn’t require our help, just our permission because He gave dominion over the earth to man and God never goes back on His Word (Genesis 1:26; Isaiah 55:11).

 

1 Funk & Wagnalls. (1989). New International Dictionary of the English Language (Comprehensive Edition). J.G. Ferguson Publishing Company.