Is Faith, EMOTION driven in any way whatsoever?

Question

In other words, can you find your way to God/Faith through emotions?

Answer 1

Always with the trick questions.
Nietzsche would deny his emotions and claim that faith is a poor substitute for reason.
A wealthy televangelist would play your emotions to ply money from you "for the good of the Kingdom."
A shrink might tell you that your faith or lack of faith is not connected to your ego driven seeking of Divinity.
An atheistic neurobiochemist will tell you that emotions are just synaptic chemicals effecting your brain cells.

If one seeks Divinity then Hate, Anger, Greed, Lust, Sloth, Gluttony and similar emotions can do little to help. On the other hand, how can one claim to have Faith or Know Divinity without knowing Love? These have nothing to do with cause and effect, but they do have a high degree of correlation.

Answer 2

I have been in churches where the speaker tried to get the congregation all worked up in an emotional ferver and then called that the prescence of the Holy Spirit or if it didn't work declared that there was a hindering spirit in the service.
Faith is trust. The things that lead one to trust may be derived from an emotional experience but it would generally be a volitional response to an intellectual assent. That is, a truth is presented to the mind and it responds emotionally because it fits with what the mind has stored in its memory in a way that the truth becomes personally identifiable. Later the inner struggle for what will hold preeminence, the spirit or the flesh tosses the person into an emotional battle because the reasoning powers discover things that it before denied as knowable and so it goes.....

Answer 3

faith is what you believe, and emotion comes from the heart, and the one true way to god is through the heart. that and faith is just a word to describe whether or not you believe what you cant see

Answer 4

I think emotions drive desire and intent. If you WANT to find your way to God/Faith, then your emotions will lead you there. Emotions happen after the desire or intent is created.

Answer 5

first & foremost faith is not an emotion for emotion quickly change but faith or true faith does not no matter what's the situation may be.

Answer 6

No, my faith and emotions are separate things.

I achieved my faith from things I have observed, and also from things I have "sensed".

However, I would not call what I "sensed" an emotional phenomena. More spiritual.

Answer 7

Faith is an emotion.

And it is as irrational as any other emotion.

Answer 8

can you find your way to drugs/alcohol thru emotions in any way whatsoever?

Answer 9

Of course

Answer 10

i guess