Can one exist without FAITH?

Question

For to live without faith is to say you know everything.

Answer 1

Or that you trust nothing, including your own perceptions.

Answer 2

...or living without faith can be, to say you know that nothing is in fact true or false and don't want to assume anything. Having faith could be considered an assumption. For instance, if someone is raised christian and they have faith in the bible and the existence of christ, they are assuming it is true by having faith in what they have been taught and have read...but there are so many other religions that it is impossible to have complete faith unless you are blind to the possibility that the other beliefs could be true as well.

Answer 3

You need to be more specific. There are things we take to be true in everyday life, because of our knowledge and experience - This is the mundane, down-to-earth kind of faith. We have faith that the parents who love us won't suddenly decide to stab us to death, but that faith is based on knowledge and experience. We *could* be wrong, but it's unlikely. We have faith that the wheels aren't going to fall off our cars when we're doing 70mph on the motorway, because we know from experience that this is extremely unlikely.

Faith in the religious sense is a different thing entirely - Here, people believe something on the basis of no knowledge or experience whatsoever. They believe in a god because it's what they would *like* to be true, not because there is the slightest objective evidence or valid argument to support it. We certainly can, and do, live perfectly well without that sort of faith.

Answer 4

faith (fāth) pronunciation
n.

1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. See synonyms at belief, trust.
3. Loyalty to a person or thing; allegiance: keeping faith with one's supporters.
4. often Faith Christianity. The theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will.
5. The body of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith.
6. A set of principles or beliefs.
1. Absolute certainty in the trustworthiness of another: belief, confidence, dependence, reliance, trust. See belief/unbelief.
2. Mental acceptance of the truth or actuality of something: belief, credence, credit. See opinion.
3. A system of religious belief: confession, creed, denomination, persuasion, religion, sect. See religion.
4. Those who accept and practice a particular religious belief: church, communion, denomination, persuasion, sect. See religion.

The answer is no.

Answer 5

I can...

BTW, no, no and no! Living without faith does most definitely NOT mean you know everything! Where on earth have you taken THAT from? Living without faith just means you don't think the answers you're missing are going to come from a superior being. That's what living without faith means!

Answer 6

I don't know everything but the only thing I have true faith in is me!

Answer 7

I think we can do without faith but we will always need to place our trust in certain things. Religious faith is different to other types of faiths...we can have faith that day will follow night it doesn't require the same blind faith religion requires because we can all check the veracity for ourselves whereas we cannot check the veracity of religions or of gods...there are clearly different orders of faith.
We trust that when we turn on a tap water will flow...sometimes it doesn't and the water supply has been turned off...it's not necessarily a devastating thing, it doesn't require faith.

Answer 8

Yes. Plenty of people don't have faith.
You can lead a happy life without faith.
Believing in nothing doesnt mean you feel you know everything. It can mean you feel you know nothing, because the universe is uncertain. By believing one thing you could be closing yourself off to other possibilities.
Faith is thinking of something as fact, when really you don't have evidence to prove it. And the lack of evidence to deny it only reinforces the persons faith.

Not having faith doesnt mean knowing everything, for me it is having the wisdom to know that I dont know.

Answer 9

Exousia Skotos,
"Can one exist without FAITH?"
Exist? Yes. Function normally? No.
People practice faith all the time. They do it when they go out the door to their car, they are dressed, have everything they think they need, do not have the card for the tow truck to come out to give them a jump. they are already thinking that they are going to get into their car and drive. No question as to the car starting. They are acting like they know it will.

That's faith. Action, based upon belief, sustained by confidence.

Answer 10

One can live without FAITH, and admit one doesn't know everything, since your FAITH actually means religion.

Answer 11

Certainly not. If you believe that tomorrow the sun is going to rise, that is faith. You may call it science or logic in that instance, and that is also true...but to believe in anything that will happen that has not yet happened is a form of faith.