Why do people assume that my faith in God is "blind"?

Question

Where does this idea come from? I know God; I have a relationship with Him. I have even witnessed proof enough for me that He exists. Why do so many people say that our faith is "blind"?

I ask this in honest curiosity; I am not being rhetorical.

Answer 1

It is a demonstration of the true ignorance of unbelievers today. Ignorance in the sense they are truly in the dark when it comes to Christ.

When you tell a 4 yr old we're going for ice cream, they don't skeptically ask 'When?', they yell 'Yaay! We're going for ice cream!' That's faith. Belief without proof.

The proof is shown to you after you believe first. Do you really think an eternal creator would feel it necessary to prove His existence to His own creation?

Answer 2

Blind faith just means that you have never actually mey God (which I'm quite sure you haven't) nor any other religous figure like that. But to me, that's what faith is. If it were not blind it wouldn't be faith it would be knowledge or fact.

The other aspect of blind faith is never questioning anything. For example with religon it does not mean you have to question the whole (unless you feel compelled to do so) But to examine the smaller parts and see how much of it is true. Once yu realized that men have changed to content and context of the bible over time, you would be more compelled to examine it thoroughly and see what you really think God said and what people have added or subtracted along the way. To follow someone blindly, means they lead you right or wrong, wherever they want to bring you.

Follow God, do not follow people who proclaim to be God or know God, or claim they know more than you about God. These people are shams. Have spirituality, religon is man-made and therefore has been alterred from true spirituality.

Answer 3

I think the question should be flipped. In my opinion, it is those who are without faith who are blind. Blind to infinite possibilities.

Some of the others are right. You cannot "prove" what cannot be seen. Proof and faith don't go together however. I think some folks have a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea of faith. Or perhaps they have walked into a love relationship on "blind faith" and been disappointed. Therefore, they don't believe in it anymore.

Answer 4

The nature of spiritual blindness covers its own blindness with a lie, projecting the blindness onto others who don't share the same spiritual father as they do. If it's possible for one man in North Korea to keep an entire nation in ignorance, why do we have trouble believing the mass blindness possible by the god of this world? Someone once said that most people in the world are asleep, and the dream that they are having is that they are awake. If your relationship with God is based on the truth of His Word, don't let the accusations get to you.

Answer 5

I understand. They assume that the only relationship with reality is their own.

I experienced God when I was 17. It was a bit more extensive than some experiences, and certainly less deserved than most, but it changed my conception of reality forever.

Blind faith is exactly what religion is about, anyway. Here's why:

Science: One must understand that science is for testable events, things that are repeatable. If it can't be subjected to scientific method, (like God, at present), it is not subject to science and is presently of no interest or challenge.

Philosophy: This is for exploring things that cannot be proven by science, but still have a perceivable presence, such as happiness, which is very subjective (most now scientific subjects were at one time in this catagory).

Religion: baby in arms so typing is bad. this is for things we cant see and cant test and are not really subject to logic.

they dont get that and confuse the uses and purposes of the three.

Answer 6

there are two kinds of faith.

the first type is basically synonymous with "trust". ok,, like,, if i walk into a room and sit down on a chair without first checking to make sure the legs are bolted on properly, then that means that i have faith (or trust) that the chair won't break. the thing is,, i know that it MIGHT break. like,,,, i'm really confident that it WON'T break, but i'm not gonna rule out that possibility.

if i knew for a fact (or i could prove) that the chair has a zero % chance of breaking, then i wouldn't have faith. i would have knowledge. --- so,, from this, we can establish that if you believe in something without proof, that you are believing in it based on faith.

it stands to reason then that christianity is based in faith (aka trust) since it can't be based in proof. but,,,,,,, see,, a lot of christians don't like the definition of this particular faith. because you always have to have doubt with faith. you don't have to have a lot of doubt, but you do have to have some. you have to be able to admit that there's a slim chance that what you believe is false. and most christians don't like that idea.

so they came up with a second definition for faith (which is actually radically different from the first one). they think that correct thing to do is to believe in something unconditionally no matter how much evidence there is against it. they think you have to believe that there's no chance in the world that said belief is false.

ok,, well this is stubborn. and it's blind. they're blindly believing in something without having a reason to believe it. that's what blind faith is.

i don't think you have blind faith. it doesn't sound like you have any faith. you said you have proof.

"I have even witnessed proof enough for me that He exists."

so if you have proof, then you can afford to be 100% confident without the help of any faith. i'm not sure what you're saying the proof is. it's probably not actually "proof" though. proof is something that only exists in mathematics. what you're basing your beliefs on is probably "evidence", in which case you can't be 100% sure.

that's cool. i believe strongly in evolution, but i can't say beyond all certainty that it's definitely true. so i have faith. i have the trust kind of faith though? is that what you have? because if it is, then you have to admit that there's a chance that what you believe in MIGHT be false.

Answer 7

The word faith has various uses; its central meaning is similar to "belief", "trust" or "confidence", but unlike these terms, "faith" tends to imply a transpersonal rather than interpersonal relationship – with God or a higher power. The object of faith can be a person (or even an inanimate object or state of affairs) or a proposition (or body of propositions, such as a religious credo). In each case, however, faith is in an aspect of the object and cannot be logically proven or objectively known. Faith can also be defined as accepting as true something which one has been told by someone who is believed to be trustworthy. It can also mean believing unconditionally. In its proper sense faith means trusting the word of another

Answer 8

Because, unfortunately, some nonbelievers (not all) just assume that anyone who believes in God does so blindly and unthinkingly.

It doesn't occur to them that for many of us believers, our belief in God came after a great deal of time, thought, research, and intellectual effort.

At least that's how it happened for me. I've been alive for 41 years but didn't give much thought to God at all for the first 37.

Now I'm a seriously practicing Catholic -- and this happened after doing a lot of research and reading on the Catholic faith and then concluding that it "makes sense" and contains the whole of religious truth.

Answer 9

Well faith can only exist in the absence of knowledge. Since you do not have knowledge of God's existence, you have to deny the other possibilities for some reason. You obviously don't have a reason, since you don't have knowledge so you are basing your belief on nothing. Thus, it is blind faith.

Answer 10

It is because your faith is based on something outside yourself. Your faith also has consequences that some people do not want. People have the belief that they, and they alone know what is best for them. They do not need a God. Society today is moving away from faith based beliefs, and it shows. I have a lot more faith in the words "In God we trust"' instead of "In Man we trust".