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If I may interject, having faith and believing should not be based on opinions of other people. Belief in God should be based upon one's own independent search for truth and faith comes when we find that truth and are certain of it.
My belief is based upon what I've read, not what I was told. My faith came from an inner knowing that what I read is true.
Ok. Then I must ask, isn't most, if not all faith based off the bible, koran, etc and what other people said?
God spoke to Baha'u'llah who is the Messenger of God for this age. God told Him a lot of stuff, the equivalent of 15,000 tablets that He wrote in His own pen. Only about 15% of those tablets have as yet been translated into English and compiled into books and they can be found in the Baha’i Reference Library:
Yes, you were honest, and I appreciate that... always.
No, my faith is based upon the Baha'i Writings that are in the Baha'i Reference Library that I just posted the links to.
I think faith is a personal choice that an individual should make regardless of what they are told or what others think. I think it benefits others with hope, gives some the strength to carry on and gives something to look foward to.Yes, you were honest, and I appreciate that... always.
Is faith and believing based on opinion of other?
Is believing that my grandad fought in WW1 based on opinions of others? No.
It is not an opinion. It's a stated truth, or fact, which I can investigate, if I see the need to, but why do so, if I have a reliable source?
Even if one refers to it as an opinion, it's an objective opinion, and a primary source. It may be backed up by secondary sources as well, and other eyewitnesses.
I believe we have enough secondary sources backing up the primary sources, which are stated truths, or facts, to be convinced, not based on opinion, but evidence of credibility.
What do you think?
Here's the thing. If a god does exist, then only one religion is right, the rest are wrong.
If I may interject again, I do not think people should have faith just because it offers hope and gives them the strength to carry on and something to look forward to. Religion does offer those things but the reason we should believe in a religion is because it is true, not for the benefits it offers, because if a religion is the truth from God that has certain implications.
That is not what I believe. I believe all the religions are right, although the older religions have been messed with my man so they are devoid of much of the truth that was originally revealed by God to the Messengers.
Aren't all religions of man's doings?
No, religion originally comes from God. Religion is is the Revelation from God to man through a Messenger of God. It is fresh and new when it is first revealed but over time it gets corrupted by man so it becomes a religion of man. That is one reason God sends a new Messenger in every age, to renew and revitalize religion. God also sends a new Messenger to establish a new religion when the prior religion has fulfilled it's purpose. Each Messenger comes with a new message that is suited to the times in which we live.
Sounds reasonable to me, but why do you make such a logical conclusion?
Actually that's a very good observation.
Yes. Faith and hope are inseparably linked. Not blind faith. Although that can have hope, but it's only a wishful hope.
So, back to my original post.
That moves us on ... what is it then?
Sorry, it is not. We have to establish it is a 'thing' first.
Since you are an atheist I am not going to throw a bunch of scriptures at you that you would not understand but rather I am going to give you a description of the soul that I wrote up from what I have learned from my religion.