And is it true or bunk?
2006-07-06 08:08:09 · 9 answers · asked by mikayla_starstuff 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's a way for some people to equate having an unevidenced belief that is not inductively sound with someone who has an inductively sound belief. It's a form of logical fallacy (fallacy of definition) where a word is defined broadly so as to allow the argument to be true. One use of "faith" concerns the supernatural, the other is usually natural. They are not truly equivalent.
2006-07-06 08:23:10 · answer #1 · answered by Rev. Still Monkeys 6 · 12⤊ 6⤋
It means that regardless of your religious views, there is something that you have faith in. Indeed, the statement is correct.
Examples:
Most people have faith that there will be a tomorrow. It doesn't mean that there will be, as a number of events could occur that would ensure that tomorrow, at least from our perception, never comes.
When driving, you have faith that oncoming traffic isn't going to come over into your lane and plow into you head on. Again, something that could happen, depending on the driver on the other side.
Probably the only people that have faith in nothing are the hopelessly paranoid.
2006-07-06 08:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by Shadar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is a very strong feeling. Having faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain. Faith is something you believe in your heart without any doubt, and without seeing actual proof. Something inside of you that you believe in the core of your existance that exists.
2006-07-06 08:11:47 · answer #3 · answered by amyvnsn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably say that because there's a lot discrepancy in faith, fantastically perspectives of who Jesus is with regards to the daddy. Even those that are interior of an same faith, and perchance acquaintances even will dispute this subject of trinity. that is because devil the devil needs it that way!!! imagine about it;; how a lot this subject has been divisive for hundreds of years. The Catholic Encyclopedia also comments: "In Scripture there is as yet no unmarried time period by using which the three Divine individuals are denoted mutually. The note [tri'as] (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about a. D. one hundred eighty. . . . shortly afterwards it appears that evidently in its Latin type of trinitas in Tertullian." even if, that isn't any evidence in itself that Tertullian taught the Trinity. The Catholic artwork Trinitas—A Theological Encyclopedia of the Holy Trinity, case in factor, notes that a number of Tertullian's words were later utilized by using others to describe the Trinity. Then it cautions: "yet hasty conclusions can't be drawn from utilization, for he does not observe the words to Trinitarian theology." Testimony of the Hebrew Scriptures even as the note "Trinity" isn't got here upon interior the Bible, is a minimal of the idea of the Trinity taught obviously in it? case in factor, what do the Hebrew Scriptures ("old testomony") teach? The Encyclopedia of religion admits: "Theologians on the on the spot are in contract that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity." And the recent Catholic Encyclopedia also says: "The doctrine of the Holy Trinity isn't taught interior the O[ld] T[estament]." further, in his e book The Triune God, Jesuit Edmund Fortman admits: "The old testomony . . . tells us not something explicitly or by using needed implication of a Triune God who's Father, Son and Holy Spirit. . . . there is not any evidence that any sacred author even suspected the existence of a [Trinity] interior the Godhead. . . . Even to work out in [the "old testomony"] concepts or foreshadowings or 'veiled indicators' of the trinity of persons, is to bypass previous the words and purpose of the sacred writers."—Italics ours. An exam of the Hebrew Scriptures themselves will submit to out those comments. for this reason, there is not any sparkling education of a Trinity interior the first 39 books of the Bible that make up the authentic canon of the inspired Hebrew Scriptures.
2016-10-14 04:41:42 · answer #4 · answered by porterii 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you KNOW you are capable of breathing, do you worry about not being able to? Faith is just that, FAITH. When you KNOW something, you have faith in it. When you know you are good at something you have faith in your ability to do it. There is NO life without faith of somekind...even if it is only faith in yourself. It is part of the human spirit that is there whether you choose it or not.
2006-07-06 08:15:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you put your faith in nothing or in anything but Christ, it will be the same punishment for them. It is just as bad to not have faith than to have faith in the wrong thing.
2006-07-06 09:04:00 · answer #6 · answered by Airman_P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having faith in something false can be worse than having no faith at all.
2006-07-06 08:11:42 · answer #7 · answered by racam_us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is what you believe in...creation or evolution. Nothing has been proven beyond doubt, so it is a leap of faith to believe in anything.
2006-07-06 08:13:19 · answer #8 · answered by Deborah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's nobody out there who just doesn't believe anything.
you believe that God is there, or you believe God is not there. but you can't just "stay neutral"
2006-07-06 08:11:52 · answer #9 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋