I'll leave it to the famous minds to explain my postion; what's yours?
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
Mark Twain
Faith is Doubt.
-- Emily Dickinson
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
-- Richard Dawkins
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
-- Thomas Huxley
The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.
-- John Adams-president
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
-- Elbert Hubba
2006-09-16 15:03:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hebrews 11:12 says that "Faith is believing in what you hope for and trusting what you do not see".
My personal definition of faith is, "A steady, unweavering way of thinking despite lack of evidence to prove your theory; perhaps a gut instinct."
2006-09-16 15:08:25 · answer #1 · answered by searching_for_my_adventure 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believing in something without the need for proof. Anyone can believe in something once it is proven to them. That takes no strength of character. Believing in God in the absence of proof takes courage, not ignorance, as an atheist would like you to believe.
2006-09-16 15:07:53 · answer #2 · answered by WHITE TRASH ARMENIAN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Blind Guides leading the Blind) Faith is trusting in something or someone, like those who got scolded for putting trust(faith) in Mosaic Law Law, which notably accused them all: Jn 5:45.
Seeing Faith, also called "Now Faith" of Then/Now Faiths allegorically compared in Heb 11, is based on "evidence".
Romans 1 speaks of chanGing: 'from faith to faith".
2Cor 3 speaks of being chanGed: "from glory to glory".
(Solomon says get it: "understanding' = "grace" glory)
Heb 12 speaks of "run": from (Sinai)mtn to (Sion)mtn.
Perhaps in each case it's chanGe from Law to Grace,
perhaps as if from a God on "high" to the higher God.
Whatsoever is not of faith is sin: Rom 14:23
The law is not of faith: Gal 3:12
Without faith, you can't please God.
God was never pleased with sacrifice.
And faith without works is dead (end).
Do God's will, then receive the promise
Don't is to die & receive not the promise
(what happened to "all" in Hebrews 11)
God's will: I will have mercy & not sacrifice.
Pst - not part is not then, not now, not ever.
The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2006-09-16 15:31:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is believing in something in which you have evidence to support your belief and to give you a reason to believe, but your belief cannot be proven 100%
2006-09-16 15:06:07 · answer #4 · answered by Brad 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is getting up to face each morning,in spite of what happened the day before.
Also...
Faith is enjoying the rain...while awaiting the rainbow.
2006-09-16 15:05:59 · answer #5 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith to me means Believing in some thing we can not fell, hear,
or see. But I hit the bottom and my faith was rewarded By God.
I will not go in to it here.
2006-09-16 15:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by redrose491957 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is to believe in something no matter what....I never seen Jesus but i know he existed..not only bc there proof buit bc i have faith.....I dont see God right now but I KNOW hes here..bc i have faith that He will be with me no mwtter what!
2006-09-16 15:07:29 · answer #7 · answered by ap 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
- Hebrews 11:1
Faith is trust in action - not trusting in action, but action based on trust...
2006-09-16 15:12:26 · answer #8 · answered by KnowhereMan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acceptance without evidence.
2006-09-16 15:05:44 · answer #9 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith is what is left-over when you have shut out reason and logic from your life.
2006-09-16 15:08:27 · answer #10 · answered by valkyrie hero 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋