What is faith actually?

Question

Isn't faith just believing something without evidence or proof? People will sometimes say that they "know" that their religion is true, but this can not be true by any stretch of the word "know's" definition. Some of the delusional people that we lock up in insane asylums are faith based people. They might believe that aliens are abducting and probing them every night as they sleep. Why do we allow faith in some crazy myths that lots of people believe in, but if you're alone in your faith you get laughed at and called crazy? Don't prove me wrong with Bible quotes. Trying that makes no sense.

Answer 1

Faith is blind allegiance to unproven dogma.

When one person hears voice and speaks to God, he is insane. When a group of people hear voices and speak to God, its called Religion. Go figure.

Answer 2

Honestly all of your questions are retorical and I personally agree with you. I found a curious thing when I played with a few words. I learned that faith meets every classification of insanity. Faith is belief without reason. Insanity is believing in something without reason.

Honestly I am perfectly content being insane to religious people and non-religious people. I follow the path of the Occult. This means I look for the hidden truth in all things. I believe in something more powerful then a God without following any well known doctorine or religion.

Hails,
Silence

Answer 3

Main Entry: 1faith
Pronunciation: 'fAth
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural faiths /'fAths, sometimes 'fA[th]z/
Etymology: Middle English feith, from Anglo-French feid, fei, from Latin fides; akin to Latin fidere to trust -- more at BIDE
1 a : allegiance to duty or a person : LOYALTY b (1) : fidelity to one's promises (2) : sincerity of intentions
2 a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) : complete trust
3 : something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious beliefs
synonym see BELIEF
- on faith : without question

Answer 4

faith is the absence of evidence, hoping that you just didn't buy the Brooklyn bridge from that televangelist after you gave your pledge

they get thier money, you get nothing but a promise

so according to TV preachers, your faith is dollars, and thier faith is you will keep giving

I have faith (no proof) that one day we will evolve past this nonsense and be about looking for alternative energy, construction that does not need electricy, and traveling that is simple and green in design and all can have it

sound rediculous? that's why it's called faith...no proof just hope thanks to hearing a story and buying into it...

buying into something and giving a pledge...like ernest money or to an escrow account to show proof

Answer 5

Can any one define faith better than the Holy Spirit Himself?

Hebrews 11:1-12
1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for.

3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. 4 By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

11 By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—was enabled to become a father because he[a]considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Answer 6

There's a HUGE difference between "belief without proof" and "belief without evidence". There's no proof for much of anything, but there's evidence for most of what we believe. Religious belief is outside of either of those: there's neither proof nor even evidence for things like life after death and the existence of a god.

Faith is belief despite that lack of evidence.

Answer 7

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. F-Full A-assurance I-in T-the H-heavenly

Answer 8

faith: Acceptance of ideals, beliefs, etc., which are not necessarily demonstrable through experimentation or reason.

"Faith; noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
Ambrose Bierce

"Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate."
F.M. Knowles

Answer 9

Just like gravity but faith keeps me from jumping of a cliff.

Answer 10

All humans want to have faith in something or someone stronger, more powerful than they themselves are. It's part of humanity and no way to explain it.