The interesting thing about beliefs is that they generally need to be changed. That’s because beliefs are not flexible and alive like living faith. Beliefs are thought structures, scaffolding built by the material intellect. Beliefs are built upon facts, but not all facts are true. Not all accepted facts are rooted in reality, something we’ve collectively learned over the long millennia of human existence and highlighted so well in TUB.
Take for example the belief that the sun revolved around the earth. A whole world thought-structure was built around a belief in a fact which was false. At the time, it was a well-known and established or settled fact (not unlike climate change today). When new facts were discovered, beliefs and world views had to be rebuilt. It was shocking! And we know how difficult that was for the world to change its beliefs and thoughts.
Beliefs form the scaffolding of material level thought structure and are meant to be discarded when new information concerning facts result in the formation of new beliefs with the need for new scaffolding. This doesn’t happen with faith. Faith is derived from an individual relationship with God. No group-think required, no set of facts required other than the truth of the fact that the relationship really exists. And this recognition of reality is something that can only be experienced in the soul, which operates on a different level of intellect. The intellect of the soul is the Holy Spirit. It is a morontia level of intellect which is highly susceptible to the Adjuster. Beliefs are derived from the material intellect; faith is derived from the Adjuster.
Beliefs are built in time; faith is a gift from the Infinite and Eternal Original Builder Himself. Beliefs progress best when they are influenced by true faith, when thoughts are restructured based upon living faith discovered within the soul. This is the reason why they say that civilization progresses only with insight into the inner world of man, his soul.
111:4.5 Only in the higher levels of the superconscious mind as it impinges upon the spirit realm of human experience can you find those higher concepts in association with effective master patterns which will contribute to the building of a better and more enduring civilization. Personality is inherently creative, but it thus functions only in the inner life of the individual.



