Faith

Hello, I would like to gather some thoughts on faith. What do you think that faith is? How have you seen it in your own life? How have you seen faith in others lives?

Faith is a gift, not a choice.

Slow night, throw some ideas my way?

Psalm23 said:

Hello, I would like to gather some thoughts on faith. What do you think that faith is? How have you seen it in your own life? How have you seen faith in others lives?

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Faith in a religious sense means to me that I trust God knows what He's doing.

Psalm23 said:

Hello, I would like to gather some thoughts on faith. What do you think that faith is? How have you seen it in your own life? How have you seen faith in others lives?

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Faith in Allah means to me that Allah has given me the teaching i need to be able to lift the vail so the true wisdom arise within me

Psalm23 said:

Hello, I would like to gather some thoughts on faith. What do you think that faith is? How have you seen it in your own life? How have you seen faith in others lives?

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Faith to me is that whatever happens is in my best interest because God has my back.

There is a reason religions are called "faiths" because strong belief is essential to holding onto a religion.

Faith is unfounded belief.

A bird wouldn't leave the nest, without faith that it could fly.

I could no more live without faith, than I could live without air or water.

Psalm23 said:

Hello, I would like to gather some thoughts on faith. What do you think that faith is? How have you seen it in your own life? How have you seen faith in others lives?

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I don't think that faith is a free gift given to us by God.
I think that faith is acquired and it grows stronger over time as we trust God and God comes through for us.

How could faith be given to us by God when God is asking is to have it to please Him?

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

I just turned my computer back on to write this. And now I can go eat dinner and go to bed.

Valjean said:

Faith is unfounded belief.

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Does that statement work for faith “in self” too, or just for faith “in another”?

Not that you claim this to be an objective statement, but it brought into mind that an objective “truth” is only objective if it’s true regardless of what variables are used. Very few statements of “truth” are objective.


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Faith is belief with the absence of objective evidence.

I think faithfulness is the evidence of things not seen.

Psalm23 said:

What do you think that faith is? How have you seen it in your own life? How have you seen faith in others lives?

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in my life, belief without evidence, so I rejected it. For others, it is their life. They are free to have their own views.

Trailblazer said:

I just turned my computer back on to write this. And now I can go eat dinner and go to bed.

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Have you answered all questions posed to you?

Trailblazer said:

I don't think that faith is a free gift given to us by God.
I think that faith is acquired and it grows stronger over time as we trust God and God comes through for us.

How could faith be given to us by God when God is asking is to have it to please Him?

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

I just turned my computer back on to write this. And now I can go eat dinner and go to bed.

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I guess that belief in God is something that is offered and either accepted or rejected.

Psalm23 said:

Hello, I would like to gather some thoughts on faith. What do you think that faith is? How have you seen it in your own life? How have you seen faith in others lives?

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Faith is trust from ignorance. While we all start out ignorant, hopefully we don't stay that way.

I tend to value beliefs based on faith less than beliefs based on evidence as far as incorporating them into my own belief system. In my experience, beliefs I've formed on faith in the past have been more prone to failure as far as understanding reality goes.

For example, when I was a teenager, there was one experience where I felt an evil presence looking in at me through a window when I was staying at my brother's place. It was too dark to see out that window, but my thoughts immediately went to this being an evil demon. I began praying to god and trying to cast out that demon from my presence, and after a time, I felt that evil being leave and wander off.

I found out a few years back that this "demon" was actually a known meth head who was known for looking into peoples homes to see if they were there before he'd try to break in and steal their stuff. He was arrested after he broke into my brother's neighbor's home that night, turns out.

There was a lot of fear in my beliefs about the supernatural, though, and I believed demons were an active part of existence and could possess objects. I threw away a lot of my stuff (like Magic the Gathering cards) because I thought that demons were using them to manipulate my life in a negative way.

Since giving up the belief in demons, my life has stopped being a fearful existence. It's weird to look back at the person I used to be and see just how different he was to me now... Now that I think about it, cutting out faith has done a lot to help me out on a personal level. I don't really see a reason to go back to that.

As for the faith of others, I don't mind as long as they don't try to influence others because of their faith. Worshipping one's god in private is one thing, but picketing a soldier's funeral like what the folks at the Westboro Baptist Church do is especially despicable. That's my take, at least!

Sorry to be so negative about it. I guess faith just hasn't left much of a positive impact in my life!

Aupmanyav said:

Have you answered all questions posed to you?

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Yes. That's why I get to eat dinner and go to bed.

Valjean said:

Faith is unfounded belief.

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or belief we trust because of the evidence.

Faith is trust in information from a trustworthy source. Information on things we don't have access or proof (for now).