When you see a man consumed by hi faith does it lead you to believe that he is a weak person?

Question

Being from the south I know that you can go to the poorest run down trailor park and find that all the white trash that reside there are devout believers in the bible(all of these people I find are usually if not always lacking of normal intelligence, therefore are weak). But if you can say that a man who stands by his beliefs in God very strongly(such as a preacher or priest) is a very noble and strong man than can you not say a man that kills himself crashing an airplane into the side of a building in the name of his God the strongest of all? I certainly don't think so, but I am interested to hear from those who do.

Oh and I call them white trash because they're addicted to crack-cocaine and crystal-meth. but in their highly incapacitated state they still some how find away to wrap their head around the christian belief in God....amazing isn't it?

Answer 1

I believe a person who is consumed by their beliefs or faith is a very strong.

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Answer 2

I believe when you see a man consumed by his faith, you see a man who has found true wisdom and knows that without such consumption he cannot withstand the wiles of the powers of this earth at this time. Christ totally consumes my life, my spirit, my actions - except when I sin, does that make me a hypocrite, no it makes me human - humans have a need that fills every void until it is filled passionately with God. That consuming faith is also what consumes others with drugs, alcohol, sexual acts, perverted or not, it's that longing for what fulfills what we cannot explain. Does this make the strongest one the one who's willing to fly a plane into a building - by no means - Paul wanted to be in heaven, but he knew it was harder to live and serve Christ than to be with Christ in heaven - so by far the stronger man is the one who lies wasting away, yet never doubting for a single moment that God is with him. The stronger man is the one who keeps walking the beat and sharing the message even though it appears no one is listening. To die for the Lord has the ring of nobility, but to live for the Lord - is to have purpose and to be consumed by a desire to give all that you are to God and to want to give more - but always realizing that it is only because God has given to you first that you can give as you do. That's the consuming faith each one should desire.

As to your rudeness of the south, whether you're from there or not, white trash, and trailor parks - I want to know did it help your question, did it add to its point, or was it just a way for your to slip in a slur - it wasn't necessary at all - because your real question was all around it and had nothing to do with it - because the intelligence level was not a factor to be considered in the consuming faith of a man and if he is weak or not, otherwise you would have ask if a lower intelligence person has to have a consuming faith because they are of lower intelligence - I've been called white trailer trash before and I'm from the south - ironically I'm of higher intelligence and I'm most definitely of consuming faith - thought you might could have kept your question more specific and to the point as it has led to two separate questions. So to the mentality and faith consuming relationship, I do not believe there is one, as my experience with what you would call white trailer trash is that there are more beer cans, tatoos, broken down cars, and social security checks than there are Bibles in the neighborhood. Perspective does make a difference - see the point?

Answer 3

In the bible (my bible) KJV the Lord says it is easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a needle then to enter into the kingdom of God...Now, some people are not so smart, but our intelligence isn't what gets us into heaven or what makes us more faithful devout christians.....What is your definition of weak.... our intelligence does not make us strong or weak. An individual who crashes his plane into the side of a building has no faith in God at all.... God also says in his word that he is our defence.... He is our leader and i my God wouldnt be too pleased if I flew a plane into a building and killed myself or others.... A man comsumed by his faith would never do that and I find nothing wrong with that. he is doing what God intended us all to do. If we do not keep God in our heart, thoughts and prayers are we even christians at all? I respect a faithful dedicated christian from any walk of life, educated, non educated, poor or rich.... A man dedicated to God is going somewhere.......

Answer 4

The persons who did this is from another country, their beliefs differ from our own. Apparently all he has known was to hate and kill, to them that was not even a big thing.
You cannot compare apples to oranges when they are so different. We are consumed thankfully by our God, our standards are much different and on a higher level apparently. This man you are referring to says he did this in the name of his God, not ours. Look and study how these people live, how they school kids at a early age to hate the U.S... To kill if they must, to give up their own lives for a cause where their religion is concerned.
This is not how this United States works. We have dignity, grace, power and more common sense not to blow ourselves up for a cause. of hate for another
country. Since you are from the south, you know the understanding we were taught how satan can get into lives and destroy them...well I honestly feel they have
satan in their lives or they would not carry so much hate.
How can they love when all they think about is destroying
people, places and things and carrying them out, they can't. Hate is the ruler of evil.,

Answer 5

i think whether a person chooses to believe in god or not is not entirely an intelligence issue. If the person is ignorant and chooses to classify everything beyond human comprehension as the work of God, then these ppl can be the smartest ones around but they just don't have the mentality to approach problems with a logic oriented mind.

Answer 6

Religion is man made, spirituality is something else. Many are caught up in the religiosity of whatever "faith" they ascribe to. The spirit filled life changes a person and does not cause them to do horrible things. Religion does. The truth is in Jesus alone. That can be tested and examined in every way and still hold up. A religion CAN weaken you. To devote the spirit without dogma is powerful.

Answer 7

That is the most enlightened, brilliant question I've seen on Answers yet. Certainly i am not one of those people who believe that. However, I am intrigued by your question. People have killed themselves in the name of god for thousands of years. It's nothing new. Christians rushed into war during the crusades knowing that they were going to die.
Killing for God should be the greatest sin of all!!!!

Answer 8

Let me just say this...if I heard my god tell me to hijack a plane and wreck it into a skyscraper, I would know immediately that that thought was not of God. He is not that kind of God! That is how I know that Islam's Allah is not my Christian God!

The only way to have the indwelling Holy Spirit (which tells us what is of God and what is not) is to have Jesus....

but the Muslim's have mistaken the Holy Spirit to be Mohammed. This gets very tricky. (and anti-Christ).

Answer 9

In many ways, faith really IS the opiate of the masses. we (as a species) use it to explain that which we don't/can't understand. i don't think one consumed by their faith is weak necessarily. a person gets lots of credit for the courage of his or her convictions. but i think to just take the tenets of any religion as truth or fact, without responsible and objective personal consideration, is a cowardly thing to do ... a cop out.

it's one thing to be legitimately, spiritually rapt. it's quite another to be led around by the nose.

Answer 10

Many times I found what you may consider a weak man, it is always in him that I find the greatest strength of GOD.