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The bible says that one has to believe in order to be saved... Why..?
Why is believing important?
Also, do I believe other religions require you to believe things.... So what is it with believing?
The bible says that one has to believe in order to be saved... Why..?
Why is believing important?
Also, do I believe other religions require you to believe things.... So what is it with believing?
They can't control you if you don't believe in themThe bible says that one has to believe in order to be saved... Why..?
Why is believing important?
Also, do I believe other religions require you to believe things.... So what is it with believing?
The bible says that one has to believe in order to be saved... Why..?
Why is believing important?
Also, do I believe other religions require you to believe things.... So what is it with believing?
It's a cognitive leap. It' can be useful for opening the mind to a higher power.Why is believing important?
The bible says that one has to believe in order to be saved... Why..?
Why is believing important?
Also, do I believe other religions require you to believe things.... So what is it with believing?
The bible says that one has to believe in order to be saved... Why..?
Why is believing important?
Also, do I believe other religions require you to believe things.... So what is it with believing?
Christians with beliefs approaching sola fide territory often emphasize their belief in Christianity as a relationship where in order to get your gift you must accept it, and in order to accept it you have to understand the significance of what's being given to you.
As someone of a consequentialist nature this seems wildly inefficient to me. But when I say so it's usually made clear to me that it's less of a gift, more of a contract.
Translation error mostly.The bible says that one has to believe in order to be saved... Why..?
Like most things it can be beneficial or deleterious. If you envision something and choose to believe in it then you can work towards it to make it happen. If you believe in someone you can enable them to be someone they otherwise couldn't be. On the bad side you can also use belief as a means of controlling other people, because a belief can act as a promise. You can tell people that they have been promised various things and so forth just like a con artist and then hook them with promises. You can make them believe that there are fences where there are none, and by that means you can coral people like animals. Belief can be good or can be bad for peopleWhy is believing important?
Without it you have little reason to do anything other than what has already been done. When you get an idea you have to decide its worth trying or it disappears. Its not that belief is by itself so important but that you can't accomplish anything without it.Also, do I believe other religions require you to believe things.... So what is it with believing?
You have to believe to learn.
It's a cognitive leap. It' can be useful for opening the mind to a higher power.
I see the necessity for belief as a system of control.
My religion requires no belief.
Without it you have little reason to do anything other than what has already been done. When you get an idea you have to decide its worth trying or it disappears. Its not that belief is by itself so important but that you can't accomplish anything without it.
A cognitive leap... That makes sense to me now.
I wonder if there are more leaps. Or if belief is to remain unmatched in regards to present and future advancements, considering all the doors it may have opened academically and morally... If it's all it's cracked up to be (I think maybe it is).
Michael Shermer has some ideas about the very first basics of belief and it is older than the genus homo:That's a very interesting comment.
I'm trying to imagine what belief would have felt like as a new concept. I wonder what it would have changed... Is it possible that "belief" coincides with the advent of learning in general with humans..? Where before it's recognition, there was only instinct-based exchanges between humans?