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2006-09-27 05:07:59 · 9 answers · asked by qwerty 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe there is a 20% chance of rain tomorrow. Do I have faith that there is a 20% chance of rain tomorrow?
Generally, beliefs are flexible enough to be stated in terms of probabilities. The word "faith" carries connotations that normally restrict it to beliefs about "black or white" or "all or nothing" propositions.
2006-09-27 05:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by Jim L 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith is the substance of things hoped for in the evidence of things not seen. Belief is putting confidence in something or someone. See if you look at the both they are similar in some ways, but faith it the greatest. I can have the faith that I will receive a something that I can't even see with the human eye, that's the difference.
2006-09-27 05:15:09 · answer #2 · answered by Beauty 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is blind faith where most everything is dismissed as a mystery and then there is an informed, knowledgable faith where explanations are sought and meditated over. The word belief seems that it could be used likewise. Blind beliefs and informed beliefs.
2006-09-27 05:10:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
You can carry the lesson on from there.
2006-09-27 05:14:30 · answer #4 · answered by deacon 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I can believe in marriage but cannot demostrate my faith in it until I walk down the aisle. I can believe a parachute can save my life, but I must put it on and put my faith in it to do so.
Belief is to intellectually accept that something is so. Faith demostrates that we are willing to trust to the uttermost, even with our very lives, that what we believe is true. But our faith is only as good as what we put our faith in. Faith in faith is nothing.
2006-09-27 05:12:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith is the trust you have in something in the absence of proof or fact.
Belief is the trust you have in something only when you DO have proof or fact of its existence.
Example:
I do not have FAITH in religion, because there is no fact or proof behind God's existence.
I DO have BELIEF in evolution, because there are thousands of books and scientific evidence that points to its existence.
2006-09-27 05:13:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Faith (wishful, magical thinking) is a substitute for evidence... and serves as the basis for 'belief'... the internalized certainty that one's own ideations map to reality.
'Belief' is a substitute for knowledge... i.e., false knowledge, sustained by wishful, magical thinking.
faith + belief = willful ignorance and self-delusion
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance... it is the illusion of knowledge." ~ Daniel Boorstin
2006-09-27 05:16:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nothing. They're synonymous
2006-09-27 05:10:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
same thing
2006-09-27 05:09:12 · answer #9 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋