God is faithful: which likely means trustworthy/reliable, rather than trusting/believing, true; but the conflation between those meanings, is made enough in scripture, that I am pursuaded we are supposed to confuse the directionality: the faithful are trustworthy, and the credible are trusting. So in that sense, God is quite believing, he is the ultimate believer, in fact. He believed in us humans, before there was any evident reason to so believe... That may even touch on why he came at all: to show us that he believed in us, even though no one else, and not even we ourselves, believed (violently-upon-his-body not so).

I getcha, but I'm not using the term theologically, or technically. I'm just talking english with fellow commoners. God Knows*. Agreed.

* up to and including middle knowledge...

God is faithful: which likely means trustworthy/reliable, rather than trusting/believing, true; but the conflation between those meanings, is made enough in scripture, that I am pursuaded we are supposed to confuse the directionality: the faithful are trustworthy, and the credible are trusting. So in that sense, God is quite believing, he is the ultimate believer, in fact. He believed in us humans, before there was any evident reason to so believe... That may even touch on why he came at all: to show us that he believed in us, even though no one else, and not even we ourselves, believed (violently-upon-his-body not so).

I getcha, but I'm not using the term theologically, or technically. I'm just talking english with fellow commoners. God knows. Agreed.

God is faithful: which likely means trustworthy/reliable, rather than trusting/believing, true; but the conflation between those meanings, is made enough in scripture, that I am pursuaded we are supposed to confuse the directionality: the faithful are trustworthy, and the credible are trusting. So in that sense, God is quite believing, he is the ultimate believer, in fact. He believed in us humans, before there was any evident reason to so believe... That may even touch on why he came at all: to show us that he believed in us, even though no one else, and not even we ourselves, believed; violently not so.

I getcha, but I'm not using the term theologically, or technically. I'm just talking english with fellow commoners. God knows. Agreed.