How in the world can you have faith god exist if you don't know he does?
Can you say it is a fact that god exists if knowledge is not more important to you than faith?
This is clear that right now u have knowledge that 100% your grandmother existed. So do u need to have faith in her existence??? Nope
Faith means trust in something. It's not what they call "blind faith"; so, if that is what you have, no I don't have that. I have faith/trust in my grandmother's presence and existence
because I know she exists and is here. It's not one or the other. It's both.
If you don't know god exist, what is your trust based on? (It has to be something outside yourself-but if it were, you'd have to know it not depend on
your trust and
your feelings. It should be independent of yourself). My great grandmother exist before me and I know there presence because my family knows their presence and we are all one unit.
I
know this so I have a he/ of a good reason to put faith into my family and family in spirits because of this.
And notice that God created animals with passions without reason
And angels with reason without passion
And human with both of them
I don't agree animals are without reason anymore than I believe all humans have reason. We are all on the same level. Angels don't exist.
God hasn't promised hell or heaven to animals and angels since they are who they are.
But human being since has ability to choose one day should be responsible for his acts.
I rather for animals to go to heaven if that be the case because animals are pure and live simple. That, to me, is more reasoning and rational (even if we are too complex to understand it), than my trying to figure out why you say something is real but you only trust it is but don't know it is because you don't want to base your belief in knowledge but just on trust.
No because before we become a creature we didn't exist.
U can't say to your parent why did u create me in summer I liked to be born in winter.
We can say, I have a parent, I know I have a parent, and because I know I trust in/have faith in my parent and what my parent did for me growing up to where I would not be alive today (no pun) without my parent. If I told my parent, I just trust her but I don't acknowledge her
actual existence, she could be way on the moon it wouldn't matter. That relation-ship helps nurture a full growth in a person.
I do not see god as an exception to this.
Yes, I do tell my parent, "If I were born on Christmas, you don't have to use up money for us on food because the presents would be both Christmas and Birthday. What child would know the difference?
I don't know why believers can't question their god
especially when they say god is their parent and creator. Why have an intermediary (a book, a person, a prophet, an angel), and just ask god directly.
So we face with a fait accompli
In this case we should see what He wants from us. He wanted us to use our reason and trust his prophets and by practicing his orders gain salvation.
U know many Muslims in the middle of war ran some even didn't participate. Even when our prophet was in the battle. This is how God tests people
That's your specific belief. If someone did not have a belief and
just believed in a creator, he or she can still build a relationship with that creator. I mean, I haven't met my great grandmother but I finally got a picture of her, her husband, and our whole family finally in the black and whites!
That doesn't mean I can't build a relationship. It just means there are different ways to do so and not all are through people (prophets, believers, and so forth). It is
your relationship with the creator.
I don't worship my family, so I don't understand the concept of worship. Sacrifice to an extent, worship, no.