Faith is believing something your intellect would otherwise reject—otherwise there would be no need for faith.
I kept reading this over again.
If I only have faith that X is true because, by default, my mind rejected it then isn't that saying that those who don't have faith, accept everything? Is there a limitation on what the mind can accept (
that is logical) while not calling it faith?
Another example/question
"I know my sister loves me. She loves me by her actions and how she interacts with me." I say I know not because of intellect. My sister could hate my guts, I am not her, so I won't know. However, I do have a high level of trust that she does love me. That trust is built on many factors that it "feels
like" it is fact itself. (Intellectually, it is not). Yet, my mind does not reject it
and I have trust in her love for me because her love doesn't have to be real (literally-say I am her) but how she shows it etc is the closest I can get to her love without being her. So that level of trust is soo strong that my intellect could not reject it unless she did something that makes me question
the bond not her personality we have together..an so forth.
I can only go on intellect but so long. My mind doesn't reject what it doesn't understands or knows-that fact is, it doesn't understand or knows. We have to be comfortable with that "not knowing." We have to be comfortable with it so when things (pun intended) happen to us, we know what to do even if it's not perfect.
So faith/trust/intellect go hand in hand.
My sister has supported me throughout my life (and so on) + she verbally showed her love (without saying "I love you") so that =means= intellectually, emotionally, and all the above, I
know she loves me. It becomes personal.
How can my intellect reject that love for faith to exist?
If I had faith in something my intellect rejected, what is the point of having faith?