What is the difference between believing in God and believing God?
There is a big difference between believing in God and believing God. Believing God means being a man or woman of faith: doing what God has said and resting on it. The example given is the Gospel—that Jesus died and rose again—which is the power of God unto salvation.
Les teaches that there is a big difference between believing in God and believing God. When you believe God, that is being a man or woman of faith: you are doing what God has said, and you are resting on it. He gives the perfect example by asking what God has said concerning the Gospel—that it is the power of God unto salvation. Paul puts it in plain language: if we believe that Jesus died and rose again. Les then points to I Corinthians 15, where the plan of salvation is given in the clearest and simplest language in the New Testament. That is what will take a person to glory, whether by death in the resurrection or by the rapture, and it is the only way, regardless of whether one is Methodist, Catholic, Baptist, or whatever. He stresses that this is not his idea or interpretation but what the Book says in plain English.