<p>11:6 <i>And without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to Him. For he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He rewards those that seek after Him</i>- Our faith in God is a seeking after Him. To believe / trust in Him is to seek Him. Whilst this may be a Hebraism for worship, it is all the same true that faith is not a finding of God, an arrival at a point where we have all our questions answered and all intellectual struggles resolved. That position, which is only theoretical, would not be one of faith but of simplistic dogmatism and literalism. Our faith is not simply in Him, but in the fact that we really shall receive the promised salvation or &quot;reward&quot;.</p><p>There are a few NT references to the Yahweh Name. One of them is in Heb. 11:6: he who comes to God must first most importantly believe that <i>He is</i> a reference to He who is who He is, and will be who He will be, and that therefore, as an intrinsic part of who He is, <i>He will be </i>a rewarder of His people. Surely the point is that it's not just knowing the Name theoretically, it is to believe it- that He who is, really <i>is</i> in our lives. Who God <i>is</i>, i.e. His Name, is an imperative to believe Him and be like Him. If we are His sons and daughters, who He is becomes quite naturally the law of our being. Thus we should love our enemies, because God makes <i>His</i> sun cp. 'our' goodness to rise on both His friends and enemies. As we reflect on the massive power that every moment works to move the sun and earth around each other, so every moment we have an imperative to love.</p><p>This is why belief in God cannot be merely an intellectual act occurring within certain brain cells. Belief means action in some way. Belief <i>and</i> the act of baptism are necessary for salvation; but some NT passages speak as if faith alone saves. This is reconciled by understanding that faith, true faith, includes works. James reasons that there is no distinction between true faith and works. They are part of the same nexus. Thus when we read in the NT of belief in Christ, the normal construction with a dative case was dropped and instead a preposition is used with the verb- belief <i>into</i> Christ is the idea, with implied reference to baptism <i>into</i> Him and an active life <i>in Him</i> as a result of our belief. To be brethren in Christ is not to just believe Christ or God, but to believe <i>into</i> them in practice. R.T. Lovelock comments: &quot;The NT writers felt the importance of this utter trust in God so strongly, that they originated a new construction in their language to emphasise the concept and force it upon the attention of their readers&quot;.</p>