What is the Difference Between Trust and Faith?

What is the difference between trust and faith?

To me, it's passive and active. I trust in god - it's passive, it's like the last thing I'll do. God is part of my faith, but I tend to avoid having "faith in god." It's too active. That kinda thing, gets people in trouble.

i've been thinking about this too...
trust/belief is gained by action
faith is more like hope.

Sunstone said:

What is the difference between trust and faith?

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Trust is when you perform actions without complete immediate evidence that they are true because of past evidence that these actions work. This could also involve taking a person's word for it. For, example, I trust a doctor even though I do not have direct evidence that his procedures are good, because if past positive experience with him. In this line of thinking, the evidence comes first, then the trust. Trust also involves the possibility that it could be misguided. Sometimes the doctor you trust might get something wrong for example.

Faith is the believe in an ideology or a person with little or no evidence. It is based on the assumption that the faith is in the right thing. For faith, the faith comes first and then the "evidence" might come. Faith involves the assumption that what you are having faith in is infallible. Questioning is discouraged and so is critical thought.

Trust is a very small and very limited sort of faith.

You would trust the babysitter to take care of your kids while you're out for the evening, but you'd be faithful to the person you chose to marry. You'd (hopefully) have faith in that person for the rest of your lives.

ellenjanuary said:

To me, it's passive and active. I trust in god - it's passive, it's like the last thing I'll do. God is part of my faith, but I tend to avoid having "faith in god." It's too active. That kinda thing, gets people in trouble.

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The Holy Bible teaches this: Proverbs 3: 5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Old Testament)

New Testament:
Matthew 27:43
He (Jesus) trusteth on God; let him (God) deliver him (Jesus) now, if he desireth him: for he (Jesus) said, I am the Son of God.

Now to Faith in the OT.
Genesis 15:6
Then Abram believed the Lord, and that faith was regarded as the basis of Abram’s approval by the Lord.

N.T.
Hebrews 11 [Full Chapter]
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen....

Hebrews 10:39GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
39 We don’t belong with those who turn back and are destroyed. Instead, we belong with those who have faith and are saved.

In many Scriptures Faith and Trust are interchangeable.

Midnight Pete said:

Trust is a very small and very limited sort of faith.
You would trust the babysitter to take care of your kids while you're out for the evening, but you'd be faithful to the person you chose to marry. You'd (hopefully) have faith in that person for the rest of your lives.

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But wouldn't you also ( hopefully ) trust your partner? It's all semantics but I think trust and faith can mean more or less the same. Or are we using the words in some technical religious sense here?

Sunstone said:

What is the difference between trust and faith?

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Trust is putting your money in a fixed rate account in an established bank with a strong regulatory system.

Faith is putting your money in a magic box and burying it under a tree on the winter solstice so the magic pixies will bring you’re their fairy gold.