that's what a lot of people seem think it means.
2006-07-13 06:15:55 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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No. It's the same as turning ON your brain. "
then why do so many faiths conflict?
2006-07-13 06:19:19 · update #1
Well, that depends.
If having faith means you believe in something in face of a lack of evidence (then no), or if you believe in the face of contrary evidence (then yes).
The 'turning off your brain' sort of faith is like insisting that evolution is false and therefore creationism is true, dispite the mountain of evidence that supports evolutionary theory.
(Unless the person just doesn't know about the evidence, then it's not faith at all just ignorance.)
2006-07-13 06:23:38 · answer #1 · answered by mikayla_starstuff 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can have Faith with or without turning off your brain. Faith is all about a belief that what you are being told is coming from a credible source.
We need to have faith that what the university professor is telling you, can be believed. We trust that this person is not trying to mislead you, we trust that his/her word is an accurate representation of reality. So we have faith in his/her knowledge of the subject at hand.
Faith can be driven much by looking at the motivation of who is directing your faith. In determining a persons motivation I would consider what the person has to gain by your acceptance.
In the case of religious faith the motivation is always about conversion to what that person believes or has been taught, is the only path to the salvation of your soul and not by facts that can be proven.
2006-07-13 06:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is .
I used my Brain for the first 18 years of my life an it turned me into a horrible person , because i found allot of things most people don't notice , that i wasn't supposed to find out.
I didn't take the advice of my concessions to put my trust in God an not in my self my concessions actually told me to do that .
The Holy Bible also "speaks" about what happens when we rile on are "capabilities" an not in God's.
"The righteous shall live by Faith" As The Lord spekas it , That's how it is.
Like When someone come's up to you an starts acting real nice , an sociable ,(an if your righteous) you'll have faith that he ain't a phony an will nice rite back to him , so not to hurt his feelings
There's millions of other examples i just cant think of any
2006-07-14 08:56:21 · answer #3 · answered by cingular11111 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes in some cases, most cases no.
On the one hand I have met some devotedly faithful people who were pretty blind and sheeplike and just did what they were told by the authority figures in their religion (Priest, Pastor, Rabbi, Priestess, etc) so yeah that opinion is somewhat justified.
BUT
There are a lot of very spiritual people out there who DO think and are very intelligent so lumping all people who have some sort of faith as being sheep, nonthinking, or inferior is just yet another example of stereotyping prompting by ignorant, and such assumptions are held by those with low self-esteem, insecurities about their own places in life, and superiority complexes.
Judge the individual BY deeds, words, and actions, people, not by their spiritual path or whether or not they HAVE a spiritual path.
2006-07-13 06:21:23 · answer #4 · answered by Abriel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's turning off your brain; more turning off the concious part and tapping into the subconscious part; the place where dreams and poetry,etc. come from. But i think it's more turning on your heart. I guess it depends if you mean Faith in a god or Faith in general.
2006-07-13 06:22:42 · answer #5 · answered by Miss Understood 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. It doesn't mean blindly follow. Its up to each person to do some serious research and prove to themselves what they believe. Granted, some things can't be proved 100%, but if you have witnesses to whatever you're questioning, it helps to builds your faith. Example - we can never know for sure about any event in history actually ever having happened, having not been there to see it for ourselves. Yet every day, people put faith in things they didn't witness for themselves.
2006-07-13 06:29:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is, sometimes.
For example, there are actually people on this planet who have a faith that the universe created itself out of nothing without efficient causation and that it also managed to organize itself into a stable structure in ways never observed or knowable. Such is the power of mythology!
2006-07-13 06:21:47 · answer #7 · answered by wehwalt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it is only natural to shut down a part of your Psyche so that you can devote your self. It's the same as if you having a code that you live by, if you would never steal and you have made this apart of you moral values, then you would try not to speculate on if you would steal or not, you have made up your mind, you are not going to steal because you believe it to be wrong. If you have made up your mind as to how you want to live, then you would shut out anything that could threaten that. That's just normal.
2006-07-13 06:23:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it takes using your brain to know what to have faith in. It does sometimes mean not always understanding how or why.
2006-07-13 06:19:58 · answer #9 · answered by Lisa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No faith is believing.
Psalm 31:23
Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full.
Psalm 33:4
For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.
2006-07-13 06:21:50 · answer #10 · answered by hateizmybestfriend 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋