believing or knowing? (NBC)

On the website of the NBC (Dutch Bible Study Center), I read the following striking words:

The Gospel is rightly called “the glad tidings,” for it provides light and certainty from God to a dark and unstable world. And “therefore we are not ashamed of the evangel of Christ.” Within Christendom, faith has been massively abandoned and exchanged for religion. Convictions have been replaced by opinions. The result is a liberalism that arises not from humility and love, but from doubt and indifference. Anyone who tries to impose his opinion on others is arrogant and rude. And whoever is willing to die for his opinion is a fool. But Biblical Christianity has nothing to do with opinions, but with proven facts and revealed Divine truth!

God gave us His Word, His Evangel, and the faith-based confidence grounded upon it is the inheritance of the Ecclesia. Her martyrs knew the power of faith. They died for the truth, and not for “the general tenor of the Bible, corrected in the light of reason and conscience.” We may not be called to wear the martyr’s crown, but we are called to share their faith. We cannot sympathize with the vague skepticism of present-day Christendom. Agnosticism is Greek for ignorance, and ignorance is sinful in the presence of a Divine revelation. A true Christian is not ignorant or in doubt.
We do not “believe” in the sense of opinion: we know!

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