Or do they all require the same amount of faith? If they require the same amount of faith, then how is it possible that freewill can exist, when your choices are unknown to you.
2006-10-02 05:24:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If they all require the same amount of faith, it is more likely your enviroment will be a factor in your beliefs.
2006-10-02 05:26:22 · update #1
AT,
So which requires least faith?
2006-10-02 05:31:16 · update #2
They all take faith, which means believing without knowing.
2006-10-02 05:27:30 · answer #1 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having faith doesn't effect free will at all. Nor does faith result from simply "environmental factors". My faith has been developed over time. All religions, scientific finds, and human thoughts require faith. Faith that you are correct in your assumptions about what is and isn't reality. It takes just as much faith to say there is no God as it does to say there is, therefore, one belief over another is irrelevant as all human endeavors require faith.
Perhaps I wasn't clear to the asker. Any belief or understanding requires the same amount of faith. Faith that what you learned was indeed the facts. Unless you have a certain definite knowledge of something, which rarely is the case due to our easily fooled senses, you have faith. There is no scale, faith is a belief or knowledge in something that you don't have first hand, actual knowledge of. Whether it is the scientist doing the research or the priest giving the sermon, to believe they are telling the truth requires faith.
2006-10-02 05:30:23 · answer #2 · answered by AT 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In Islam, no need for faith to enter.
Just enter and faith will come in a huge dose shortly after that.
Some scholars say: on earth , there is a heaven if you don't enter it , you will not enter the real heaven. Reffering to the peace and joy you will feel after becoming a muslim.
2006-10-02 05:42:59 · answer #3 · answered by MUSLIM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James 2:14-26 states:
14 Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if a certain one says he has faith but he does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it? 15 If a brother or a sister is in a naked state and lacking the food sufficient for the day, 16 yet a certain one of YOU says to them: “Go in peace, keep warm and well fed,” but YOU do not give them the necessities for [their] body, of what benefit is it? 17 Thus, too, faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.
18 Nevertheless, a certain one will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith apart from the works, and I shall show you my faith by my works.” 19 You believe there is one God, do you? You are doing quite well. And yet the demons believe and shudder. 20 But do you care to know, O empty man, that faith apart from works is inactive? 21 Was not Abraham our father declared righteous by works after he had offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 You behold that [his] faith worked along with his works and by [his] works [his] faith was perfected, 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which says: “Abraham put faith in Jehovah, and it was counted to him as righteousness,” and he came to be called “Jehovah’s friend.”
24 YOU see that a man is to be declared righteous by works, and not by faith alone. 25 In the same manner was not also Ra´hab the harlot declared righteous by works, after she had received the messengers hospitably and sent them out by another way? 26 Indeed, as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
2006-10-02 05:36:26 · answer #4 · answered by roc788 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All three require a lot of faith because no one that is alive today was there to witness the events that have happened in their sacred books.
2006-10-02 05:26:33 · answer #5 · answered by peach49444 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take more faith to trust someone that live 2000+ years ago & follow his footstep, to have a close relationship with him too.
Other religon, you don't have to trust the leader. You just follow the rules he wrote down wholeheartedly & by rot. So faith is negated to certain extent.
2006-10-02 05:35:37 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to agree it has to do with your environment, but as I have tried to study them all I will go with Mormon. Some of the claims and history are very easy to disprove. As the spoonerism says you would have to be very gullible. People believe what mom and dad say though. It is right there in the bible too, makes it pretty easy. Mom and dad say follow the bible, the bible says to respect them. It's hard to get out of that. Especially if you go to "Jesus Camp" I would bet.
2006-10-02 05:34:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
faith is the most important thing and u should show ur faith by worshiping and obeying and believing every thing in ur religion ..
so i think the different just on the things u believe on and how much u can do for ur religion and for ur self.
2006-10-02 05:40:24 · answer #8 · answered by Alone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mormons are Christians
They believe in Jesus Christ.
See www.mormon.org
2006-10-02 07:06:08 · answer #9 · answered by righteous992003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm....last I checked, Mormons are Christian.
2006-10-02 05:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋