Faith technally is nothing but a guess. Yet you act like you are 100% and that you know something someone else doesn't. Or you believe you have a gift that no one else has. We are all freaking the same. Why can't you realize that!
2006-09-06 15:55:07 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the end, its the enviroment that made you choose what you chose to believe. And people on this forum act like they know something more.
2006-09-06 15:59:11 · update #1
"Faith" is only as worthy/valuable as the object in which it is placed. I might have great faith that a decrepid bridge is safe, when it's not. Or I might be fearful (little faith) to drive across the Golden Gate bridge, when it's entirely safe. In each case, the "faith" is not what "saves" -- but the object in which it is placed.
That said, Biblical faith is not believing in spite of the evidence, but believing because of the evidence. GOD reveals enough to make "faith" in Him and His Word a reasonable thing. BUT -- He leaves enough questions unanswered so as to still require faith!
2006-09-06 16:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by pilgrimchd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean, everyone is very different. Religiously speaking, everyone within any church also has different views and ideas about how to get to heaven. So the question is, if you do have faith (which is good to have) how do you know your right? Or, when “judgment day” comes who and how will you be judged? Me, I think you are compared with yourself, no-one else. No-one can ever say you were good or bad, black or white, right or wrong; there is no answer to that. Not only that, after it’s all said and done are we stuck where we are for eternity? Boring! That’s why I believe in eternal progression. Always learning, always expanding. Yes, belief is funny, and no-one, NO-ONE, is 100% sure, otherwise it would be knowledge or law like E=mc2. Good luck.
2006-09-06 23:09:53 · answer #2 · answered by Coool 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heb. 11:1 "11 Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld. "
I guess we know about your level of 'faith' , but I disagree with you. I feel that my faith is extremely strong and I have complete faith in the promises that I find in the Bible. Maybe you and I should have a chat about some of those, let me show you the scriptures that strengthen my faith and you could see why I feel the way I do. But... from the wording of your question, I get the impression that you aren't really ready to listen yet.
2006-09-06 23:04:32 · answer #3 · answered by heatherlovespansies 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Environment ey? Haven't heard that one before. I guess all those answered prayers, feelings of fulfillment, and right living are just all caused by my humidifier? If you knew with 100% you've stepped past faith. Anyone that's interacted with God knows that kind of defeats the beauty of faith itself. In some ways we are all the same, but none of us are 100% the same.
Environment? I didn't even grow up in a church going home. It sounds kind of like you think you've figured us all out 100% even though you've never met even 1% of any of us.
2006-09-06 23:04:33 · answer #4 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I KNOW BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT that heaven is my future
home.I am a pilgram just passing through this world looking for a city
whos builder is GOD!
2Ti 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. 1Jo 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Friend the best is yet to come for me.What do you have good to look
foward to? You can if you will trust God and recieve Jesus as the Lord of your life.Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
In Christ in Love,
TJ57
2006-09-06 23:40:25 · answer #5 · answered by TJ 57 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. I am personally an agnostic... who's to say what religion is right? I believe that there is definitely a higher power of some kind, but not necessarily "God." For all I know cats could be the true power of this earth!
2006-09-06 23:02:30 · answer #6 · answered by leahvivian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 100% sure that I have repented, been baptized in Jesus' name, and filled with the Holy Ghost. That is what Peter preached as the first message of the New Testament church. I don't see the problem.
2006-09-06 23:01:11 · answer #7 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its very true those people(which by the way is every single living person)who have faith in their religion, ideas, or other things think they are right those people are EXTREMELY
STUBBORN!!! because they have a closed mind to everything else some people say they have an open mind but they're subconscious mind is really closed like i said this applies not only to me(i admit) but to every one who ever lived is living or will live in the future
2006-09-06 23:12:24 · answer #8 · answered by Brass Dog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO i have faith because i have evidence!! the holy Quran has the true words of God himself and nothing in it was disapproved by science in fact many of scientific facts in the Quran that were just found to be true in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2006-09-06 23:08:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and no... Yes, because you are asking to hurt and injure someones faith and the truth is that in questioning, we grow. Faith is never 100% but it is that gap...making that leap...that makes us grow and thrive in faith and in our beliefs. No...it's not funny...because some people think that by questioning their faith and beliefs they are betraying the faith or something...but I question everything in my life and in my beliefs...that is the nature of it all...
To seek but never truly find....faith and beliefs are a strange thing but they give us hope and strength and they are the vessels that carry us through the hardest and highest points of life.
2006-09-06 23:24:06 · answer #10 · answered by Mary Kathleen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋