We all have faith. We go to sleep expecting to get up later. Yet people around the world die every day in their sleep. The thought we sleep and later rise is faith. Faith is what keeps us all moving. If you have faith that you will see tomorrow, why don't you have faith in other unseen matters?
2006-08-22 03:58:42 · 14 answers · asked by wiregrassfarmer 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How true! We have faith in may unseen things of this world yet people still cannot have faith in the "unseen" God.
We have faith in the wind, but who has seen the wind blow? Yes, we see the trees move or dust being blown, but we can't see the wind itself, yet we know its there.
We have fatih that a plane will stay in the air and fly, but how many people really know what keeps that plane in the air and not falling?
We have faith that we will leave our home in the morning and return at night, but how many times is someone killed in an accident everyday and doesn't return home?
We have faith that our faimly will always love us no matter what, but how many times has someone's family turned their backs on a family member because of a choice of lifestyle or an unspeakable crime?
We have faith that we will have a home, a job, food to eat, etc. but what happens when something causes all that to be taken away, such as a natural disaster like hurricane Katrinna?
We have faith in tomorrow, we're sure its going to be there but what happens if we have a major terriost event or a country decides to use a nuclear bomb?
Do we really know for 100% that there will be a tomorrow?
NO!!!
All of these things are faith in "unseen" matters! So why do people find it so hard to have faith in an "unseen" God? Or faith in the promises given to us. Faith in a life after this one?
"Now faith is the sustance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1
To me that answers the question.
There are words to a song " yesterday's gone and tomorrow may never be, but we have this moment to hold in our hands"
So why not step out in faith and believe?
2006-08-22 05:09:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mentor Mom 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have unshakable faith and conviction. It's when a situation seems hopeless for me that I REALLY depend on faith. And I usually end up OK in the end. A lot of people think having faith is to desire something and to worry about it until it happens. But true faith means you LET GO in your emotions and know that things will turn out for the best. And as for taking it for granted that we will wake up the next day, I just want to say that I had those same thoughts as I drifted off to sleep last night, and I know that all of life is fragile and unpredictable, so I tread lightly but gratefully and do my best to live compassionately.
2006-08-22 11:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by cami 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While most people faith relies on being alive, some faiths require you to wait until after death for the reward. While I go to sleep at night expecting to get up is based on all the other nights I have gone to sleep and woke up.
Expectations based on past experience is different then faith based on the promises of holy men and dusty books wriiten by greedy kings.
2006-08-22 11:08:42 · answer #3 · answered by Rob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people have faith in unseen things. I have faith in atoms and subatomic particles even though I have never seen them. I have faith in the existence of radiation that I can't see. I possess this faith because there is experimental evidence for all of these things.
I have faith that I will wake up in the morning for the same reason. I did it yesterday.
I myself have trouble having faith in things such as religion where there is absolutely no evidence for them. Except the word of some "prophet" that I could equally well explain by insanity.
2006-08-22 11:13:57 · answer #4 · answered by Jabberwock 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey....idiot. If you're going to attempt to argue theological principles through logic you need to get your building blocks correct:
Faith (n.)
Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. See Synonyms at belief.
Your terrible analogy is a fallacy (Fallacy - A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference). We have empirical evidence that when we sleep we will wake up as it happens every day. When a person dies in their sleep they likely expected to wake up. "Faith" isn't what keeps the person waking up. It's obtaining adequate rest that awakens the body.
It would be like saying when i drop a ball and it falls to the ground it did so because I had faith it would. It's called "Gravity". And it is a proven scientific fact.
Most people keep going due to proven scientific or repeated behaviours. You press on the gas and your car moves, you feed your dog and it doesn't die of starvation, ect.
You need to read Bishop Berkely's works if you want to proceed with your type of argument. You're way out of your league and when you try to take positions like this without the proper knowledge base you make your religious beliefs seem silly.
PRAISE JESUS!!!!!
2006-08-22 11:15:02 · answer #5 · answered by stevenkray 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Faith is the things hoped for and not seen. I don't believe that you can deny faith because you have faith everyday. You wake up and you start your car, you cross the street, the stoplights change, you have to have faith in everyday life. Faith is an everyday part of life, but that are somethings that happen on a daily basis that people expect. Their car to start, to wake up, to cross the street and not get hit by a car, to not get fired at work, paychecks, ect. I think most people don't have faith in other unseen things because they refuse to believe that it is possible and they deny that their could be a higher power to help enable the impossible to happen. It all lies in the doubt and the refusal to believe in God. It takes faith to believe in evolution or the theory of creationism. There is not alot of proof for either of them to say that one is right and the other is wrong. It is a matter of opinion and faith. It takes faith for people to say that God doesn't exist, just as to say that he does exist. I think that people refuse to believe that anything can be possible because they chose to walk by sight and not by faith. If it can not be seen with the naked eye it can't be possible. We can't see the wind move, but we can see the debris and leaves get blown by the wind so it is easy to say that the wind is real. If you couldn't see the evidence of the wind with the naked eye I am sure that people wouldn't believe that the wind is real. You have to walk by faith and not by sight to be able to survive in life.
2006-08-22 14:09:39 · answer #6 · answered by busyliz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you are mistaking assumption for faith. Since I got up this morning it stands to reason that unless something dreadful happens to me I will do the same tomorrow. Faith in this context would be more like going to bed knowing you wouldn't get up tomorrow (given that you are perfectly healthy) A good question nonetheless.
2006-08-22 11:06:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
When your beliefs are based on evidence and/or reason we don't call them faith. Faith is what we call beliefs not based on evidence or reason. We have evidence the sun will come up tomorrow. We have a history of the sun coming up. We have an understanding of physics. We have lots of evidence and reasons for the sun coming up. I try to base my beliefs on evidence and reason. I really don't see why so many people choose not to. If all you have is faith for your beliefs, why believe in them at all?
2006-08-22 11:09:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The probability of waking up in the morning is very high. It's a rational expectation, not faith.
2006-08-22 11:06:59 · answer #9 · answered by PoliSciFi 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely correct. However, that doesn't stop people from not recognizing the critical part faith plays in their lives. :-)
2006-08-22 11:05:51 · answer #10 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋