FAITH : "a willingness to accept religious dogma uncritically" ....yes? ...no?

Question

i'm asking about RELIGIOUS faith ... not faith in your car ...or whatever ;-)

Answer 1

Yes. A belief strong enough to dismiss logic and evidence to the contrary.

Answer 2

lets first drop religion from the question and get to faith that scripture talks about and not what you refer to correctly as having faith in a dogma.
Scripturally faith is an act where you make a decision to believe there is a God, and that you have decided to become His friend believing that He is a certain way, without ever really meating Him, kind of like a blind date. You hold out yourself trusting He will befriend you, and knowing He said He would if you asked. If you believe He is poerful then this is kinda scary because you know if you are friends He will have an influence on you and therefor have opened yourself to the control of God.
That is faith and in my experience that, trust and obediance is rewarded greatly, and since I did it by myself (in that I was alone), I am not blindly folowing a person who may or may not have a hidden aganda. I know God loves me without any consideration of a specific religion, sorry to say there are many who think there are strings attached. The point being faith is not dependant on a church, and is not unlike having faith a chair will hold you up when you sit, but unlike a chair there are hither to never expected nor understood rewards some of which words do not do justice

Answer 3

Yes and No

There are a couple of ways to answer this question. Faith is certainly belief in something, but how one arrives at that belief is different.

Some people believe for the sake of believing. This is called fideism. Fideists reject all other notions of belief other than faith, so they reject science and philosophy. Many try and group all people who have faith into this category, but not all people of faith believe like this.

Others, like me, have faith stemming from evidence. The faith is based on a set of facts and arguments that convince one that the propositions are worth believing. The facts may or may not be in religious books, but some of them are.

The latter is basically Baye's theorem, which makes an inference about something based on probability. If a certain theory is probably true, then it is likely that it is true. It doesn't guarantee that it is true, but it is at least believable enough that one can have faith in it.

Answer 4

Faith and dogma are two very different things.
The Crusaders created a dogma that to kill Arabs was to serve Christ.
Muslim extremists believe that to kill Christians will give them a special reward in heaven.
I just went to a site that gave many definitions of faith. The simplest one is: belief without proof.
I am a scientist.
I am a skeptic.
I,also, happen to be a Christian. I could quote you several Biblical texts such as 1 John 4:1 that says, "...test the spirits..."
To be a Christian I MUST be critical of every doctrine (dogma) propagated and I pray continually for wisdom, knowledge, understanding and discernment.

Answer 5

Faith is commonly known as a belief, trust or confidence often based on a transpersonal relationship with God, a higher power, elements of nature and/or a perception of the human race as a whole.
To me faith is a real knowlage beond merly seeing and touching and I don't beleve it is faith unless you prove it first for your self

Answer 6

Sad but true; I call it blind faith -(something I learned from an old friend....) Yeah prove it- take your hands off the wheel next time you're driving an let God show his driving expertise.

Answer 7

Sadly yes

Answer 8

FAITH is accepting the word of God as truth THEN being blessed.You have this reversed somehow.Jesus Christ SAID ask-seek-THEN KNOCK - ok got it

Answer 9

Faith is that haunting feeling that someone, somewhere might be happy and the uncontrollable desire to put a stop to it.

Answer 10

Absolutely not. Though this is MUCH too common today among most religions.

Be Blessed and Blessed Be