Faith is having confidence in something. Like having faith your chair will be there when you set down. I am a Christian, and when I look around me and see all the beautifull things I believe God created, babies, flowers, stars, the Sun, I believe it takes more faith not to believe in God then to believe. We see him everwhere. What do you think?
2006-10-05 10:01:05 · 11 answers · asked by Icie's_Girl 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Science believes in the Big Boom, How do they not know, that God might have sounded like a big boom when he spoke the world into being?
2006-10-05 10:16:38 · update #1
In answer to some, I believe that the devil exist too, also by the things I see.
2006-10-05 11:54:03 · update #2
I believe that mudcats intelligence has evolved into stupidity.
2006-10-05 12:30:21 · update #3
This is a very interesting question. I have read a lot on both religion and science. Many extremely intelligent people are religious fundamentalists and equally intelligent people are atheists. This leads me to believe that nobody is intelligent enough to know the truth. Yes, I believe it takes faith to be an atheist - to be absolutely sure that when you die, there is no hereafter for you personally. I would prefer to have absolute faith in Jesus [who has?] then I would be happy to die and to meet Him and my loved ones again. But if it wasn't so I would no longer exist to have regrets. But an atheist [assuming he/she is absolutely convinced] must spend their later years in a rather gloomy state of mind, knowing that nothingness approaches.
2006-10-05 10:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by william a 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your definition is off kilter. Faith is believing in something for which there is no rational evidence. Personally, I would amend that to say that faith is belief in something that you have no rational evidence other than your own experience, an experience that cannot be effectively shared to someone else.
Your experience at believing God created beautiful things ignores the gore of war, the nauseating odor of rotting tomatoes and cheese in the back of the fridge, or the terror and aftermath of an earthquake or hurricane, all of which are just as apparent as babies, flowers and stars. Your mental filter finds beauty, which says a lot about you, but nothing about what you see. All of these things just are, neither beautiful nor ugly, except as each human being sees them so. This doesn't require God, it simply requires a mind that can make a judgment about aesthetics.
2006-10-05 10:18:58 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is defined as belief that is not based on proof. This is different from having faith in your chair, because you can physically see and touch your chair. There is evidence that your chair exists. I also have faith that the beautiful things that you described exist, but I call them nature, not God.
2006-10-05 10:04:10 · answer #3 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If it takes faith to believe that science has explanations for all those things you listed, than maybe it does take faith. But because science has actual explanations for how such things developed that are a lot more in depth and satisfying than "God made them," I think it takes less faith.
2006-10-05 10:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by Girl Wonder 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Their main faith is in the illusion of a material world.
Although they know, through physics, that the world is 99.9% 'empty' space, they continue to believe they can understand it through the actions of matter.
*That* is a great faith.
2006-10-05 10:06:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The law is not of faith: Galatians 3
2006-10-05 10:04:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes a lot of faith to be an atheist. That is why I am an agnostic. I am not willing to take the leap of faith necessary to be an atheist.
It is nice that you have faith in God -- but don't mistake belief for proof. Your argument presupposes your conclusion.
2006-10-05 10:11:26 · answer #7 · answered by Ranto 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have faith in the evolution of intelligence but it's tough with so many christians around....
2006-10-05 11:50:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It takes an enormous amount of faith in one's self.
2006-10-05 10:04:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mine took hard critical thinking.
2006-10-05 10:18:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋