Faith as Passion.?

Question

If Faith is the truth of our spiritual passion, since no passion is more true than another could it then be said that faith is the truth of nothing, or just one truth among many individual truths?
What makes one passion or faith or truth greater or more real in THE world and in YOUR world?

Answer 1

Truth is our perception of it. What may ring true for me, may not ring true for another. It takes many truths to form a single truth, and therein lies the dilemma. It is impossible for one person to embody all that is true. When you are presented with truth, your soul will recognize it. It is impossible to lie to the soul. You must be plugged into your spirit, your inner consciousness, to know this...to sense it, to feel it, and to learn what is true.

I learn from many; I learn from what is inside me; I learn from what exists outside myself. When I form a conclusion, it is often felt and heard...and then it is added to by another to form a greater truth...and so the process continues. It whispers to us from deep within...and this how you learn to trust greater truths. It represents an ongoing process that never ends...and leads to a greater passion within our quest for truth.

Sometimes, it is within our quiet acceptance that leads us to the greater truth.

Answer 2

There are many passions or truths in the world and all of them are equally valid or meaningless. What tends to make one passion or faith or truth greater is individual or collective ego. Since ego is about self projection, the passion, truth or faith is only more important to the individual or group and therefore subjective.

Answer 3

You can not be passionate about faith if you do not know with out a doubt that the one you follow is the Lord.
I am very passionate about Jesus and God.
They are everything to me.
The truth never changes.

Answer 4

faith is what you believe in-- your own truth -- as opposed to what the world around you believes in.

science is exact: you either see something or nothing at all. it gives you a lot of "truths" based on empirical data.

in religion and sprituality, people believe in a force higher than everything else even without the scientific data-- as you dont exactly see God in person; you see Him THROUGH other people, in the good deeds of others.

my faith in God is made more real in my experiences with the people i encounter day by day. it is made more real by my mere existence. anything that exists or happen in my life that science cannot provide evidence for makes God more real to me, strengthening my faith-- my truth-- and fuels my passion to believe even more in a higher Being up there.

these experiences when multiplied in the lives of others make for more believers-- thus, the WORLD believes. but since we have different religions, or "faith," truth differs for most people in the world, giving the world "several" truths. one cannot easily nullify the other, as each is perceived as "true" by its believers to a great extent that these truths have become the foundation of their individual and collective faith.

Answer 5

You use the word True or truth like five times in that question. You should give some consideration to what most academics admit today. There is no truth. There is the perception that each person holds. That is true to them, only to them, and usually not that often as people are constantly second guessing them selves. So how can you ask of truth, when such a thing does not really exist.
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Answer 6

I will tackle the second question within this one. I see greater things done by greater people than me on a daily basis. A lot of these people stick to themselves, going against the grain, not even necessarily believing in a truth, but trying to discover it

Answer 7

you were my passion and my faith. ever since you broke off our engagement i have neither. faith used to be a passion. the faith i had in us. that was passion. but you took it away.

Answer 8

many times faith is greater empowering for long term mutually as pastime is greater short term yet for the two its what you place into it makes a distinction on person-friendly nonetheless i might say faith.

Answer 9

Defination of faith-Feminine of H529; literally firmness; figuratively security; moral fidelity: - faith (-ful, -ly, -ness, [man]), set office, stability, steady, truly, truth, verily.

Answer 10

Religious faith in the reasonable and Catholic sense is an extension or application to the spiritual world of an ordinary intellectual process which all exercise daily, and without the exercise of which our lives as social beings would be impossible.

This process consists in assenting to the truth of propositions on the testimony of others. We may acquire knowledge in two ways - either by direct observation (you see a man knocked down by a motor car in the street), or through the testimony of others (you read an account of the accident in the evening paper, or learn it from a friend).
The last intellectual operation, whereby we assent to the truth of facts (which are, perhaps, beyond the reach of our Own observation) because other men testify to their truth, plays an incessant part in our lives. It is in this way most of our knowledge comes to us - on the authority of others. If you reflect on the method whereby people as a rule acquire scientific, geographical, historical, philosophical knowledge, or if you think of the part which books and newspapers play in our lives, you will, I think, admit the truth of what I say.

We each of us investigate a very small portion of the earth's surface on which we live - namely, the part traversed by the tiny track of our perambulations through life. All the other knowledge we have of the world - or of the universe - rests on the testimony of others.

Not Unscientific

Now, who will say that such faith, such willingness to accept testimony, is unscientific, or unworthy of a rational being? Who will suggest that it is not based on sound intellectual principles? It may not be easy for you to trace the process whereby you have come to believe without any doubt in the existence of Jupiter's satellites, or of icebergs in the Antarctic, or of Hitler or Mussolini. The evidence has come through many almost imperceptible channels, but is such that it excludes all doubt from your mind. If you analyse the process, it comes to this: You convince yourself by direct examination or reasoning of the reliability of the witness; then you accept his testimony as true. Two things must be clear to you about the witness - (1) That he had ample opportunity to learn the facts; (2) that he is telling the truth. In other words, that he is not deceived himself, nor wants to deceive you. In a court of law, the judge and jury must test these two points: Is the witness truthful? Has he knowledge of the facts? Once they are convinced of these two things, then they accept his evidence, and believe his statements to be true.
To a Catholic believer Faith is just this process. It is not conjecture, nor is it credulity. It means assenting to the truth of certain facts on the evidence of a reliable witness, the witness in this case being God Himself. That the facts (e.g., the Trinity, Incarnation, the Real Presence ) are beyond our ken and cannot be directly tested by us is no more a difficulty to our accepting them (when the evidence is sufficient) than my inability to investigate directly the murder of Julius Caesar or the execution of Mary Queen of Scots militates against my belief that these two eminent persons met with violent deaths.

Steps in the Process

The steps that lead to Faith are these: -
(1) I assure myself by reasoning and argument that God has actually spoken and communicated knowledge to mankind - that He is a witness to men of truth.
(2) I prove that this knowledge is still available for use, is actually preserved somewhere in the world, is in the keeping of somebody from whom I can obtain it.
(3) I learn the contents of the message, and accept them as God's revelation, on His authority. This last mental act is the formal act of faith. The other two processes, for the carrying out of which we rely on our own intellectual acumen and activity (aided by God's grace), are preparatory, and lead up to the formal act of faith.
Suppose you receive a letter from a friend whose word you trust implicitly. A glance at the handwriting and signature assures you that the letter is actually from this friend. You thereby establish its genuineness and authenticity, and even before you read the letter or know its contents you are assured that your friend has sent you a message, and that you have his message in your hands. This corresponds to the preparatory stages (the praeambula fidei, as theologians call them), described above. Then you read the letter and learn certain facts, which you accept as true on the authority of your friend. This corresponds to the formal act of faith.