Is being gullible and stupid the same as faith?

Question

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Answer 1

I have a 136IQ .I never believe infomercials.I doubt all politicians. I verify things i am told. I have searched for many years for the truth. And i have to live by faith, every day and so do you. You drive down the street having faith that the oncoming cars will stay in their lane even though you see almost daily on the news that some do not. You live by faith when you board an plane knowing sometimes they crash.You have faith your spouse will not cheat.you have faith when you eat foods knowing some contain deadly bacteria.You have faith in imperfect humans yet you have no faith for the perfect one. Are you gullible and stupid?

Answer 2

Faith is too broad a term to be used so simply. Gullible and stupid also are different things. Stupid we know means unintelligent, gullible means that you believe things you're told without question, overtrusting.

Faith has a few different ways it can be applied. Everyone has faith in something. The only question is what the object of that faith is. I have faith that when I press the keys on this keyboard in front of me, letters will appear on the screen that I design. You have faith when you sit in a chair that it will hold you up. Is that stupid or gullible? Of course not.
Is it possible that both of us could be let down? Yes. It's possible that while I was gone that someone poured soda into my keyboard. It's possible that the chair is not stable and will break when you sit in it. But that doesn't make either one of us stupid for having faith in it.

There is a thing that is called blind faith. That refers to believing in something without any indication that it is true. For instance, if I am dealt a card face down, I can have faith that the card is the ace of spades. There is nothing to back up my faith, I just have to believe it if I'm going to believe it. No one can reaffirm that faith with any evidence until I pick that card up and show someone.

Then we have faith due to experience. This is the faith that we talk about regarding keyboards and chairs. We trust these things will function due to a history of them functioning as we expect.

Finally we have faith in a promise. If you have a friend that when they tell you they are going to do something, they reliably do it, then are likely to have faith in them. This is not unlike having faith in experience, but slightly different. It involves another free willed individual which has the ability to do as they please regarding a promise. This is the type of faith that people have in God. God has given promises, and has kept them, therefore people have more faith in God's promises, because they have seen them be kept.

Answer 3

Not quite. SAy I put a key on the table. And I tell you there is $1,000,000 in a safety deposit box. You pick up the key and you go around telling people you got $1,000,000 in the bank. And you believe it.

That is faith.

Now, say I do the same thing, but I tell you not to look at the box and that you have to mail me $5 a week for the next 50 years but then you can have what is in the box. So you start mailing off that money. Now we've wandered into gullible and stupid.

So as you sit in church and drop your money in the collection hat, you just have to ask yourself which camp am I in.

Answer 4

When I was a young girl I was very gullible possibly stupid in some decisions I made. I'm an adult know and have more faith than ever so I'm gonna say, there is no truth in that for me.

Answer 5

If you believe something with no first hand knowledge, than it is faith. People have faith in science, in books they read, in their own ideas. Sometimes their faith is stupid and gullible, depends on how much first hand knowledge they have on the subject. Someone who reads a few books and listens to some scientists teach about evolution have a lot of faith in this, with no real first hand knowledge, is that stupid or gullible?

Answer 6

No, not quite. Faith is just wishful thinking. That's different than being gullible or stupid. Think of it as having blinders on in a certain direction.

There are some things people cling to, even though they are baseless. That opens them up to being gullible and willfully ignorant when it concerns that topic.

They can be extremely bright and logical with regard to everything else in their lives. That's what makes faith so insidious.

Answer 7

No....but ignoring the written testimony of an eye witness is. You gladly and readily accept the fact that Abraham Lincoln existed....you read his speeches as recorded by history yet you never personally met him. The same is true for Plato, Socrates, George Washington, etc. Christians believe the written record as recorded in the Bible. That doesn't make them stupid. You don't believe the Bible, that doesn't make you stupid, why are you so hostile to people that believe differently than you?

Answer 8

It can be. It depends on where you place your faith. Lean on a broken reed and you'll get splinters for your trouble. Lean on God, and you are building on a solid foundation. Look at it this way: I can have faith that a chair will support me. But until I actually SIT in the chair, it's just words. Gullible people try to sit on a broken chair. Christians sit on a solid chair.

Answer 9

Jeez all this comparing christian faith to faith in terms of driving your car and arriving safely, there is no comparison! We all know that there is always a risk of an accident, and we can PROVE that other cars exist! Now imagine driving your car with a blindfold on, now that would take faith...

Answer 10

We all have faith in somebody. A parent, a teacher, a scientist, a journalist, a religious leader. I myself think it is gullible to trust anyone who ISN`T God.