When we are children, and we question something our parents or other athority figures wish us to believe, but we don't, they just tell us we have to have faith. Faith then is a mechnism to artificially store untrue things in our brain in the area usually reserved for true things, right? Then, when we retrieve that information, we retrieve it from the place where we hold things to be true, regardless of whehter or not we were ever convinced it was actually true...
2006-10-14 07:44:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
faith is believing on things you can't understand & evidences of things unseen. Its an insult to our human intelligent & that exactly how it should be coz we touch God with our spirit not our mind (intelligience)
2006-10-14 07:53:45 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If beliefs are forced, then it doesn't create faith. That's something u have to develop on your own, cause u want to and are convinced about it from your own reasonings. The best def. is in the Bible itself at Hebrews 11; 1 " Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld."
2006-10-14 14:50:05 · answer #2 · answered by jaguarboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you were brought up by a cop-out artist. Your definition of faith is appalling.
If I understand you correctly, faith to you is accepting what is untrue because authority demands it. I consider this unacceptable.
Faith is believing what you cannot see, but have hope for. If you doubt if it is true, then you have negated your faith, you have no hope of it's reality.
2006-10-14 14:55:21 · answer #3 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you know it isn't so then you really wouldn't have faith would you? Faith is the belief in things unknown or unseen or unproven by definition yet you yourself believe it to be true therefore you by faith know it to be true.
No one can prove scientifically that God for instance does or does not exist so logically since science cannot prove or disprove a belief in God then atheism itself is a faith in the nonexistance of God.
Hurts don't it?
No don't tell me that evolution disproves God because it in itself is simply a theory...it's unproven....so i guess even evolution requires faith too.
Now that will really bake your noodle.
2006-10-14 14:51:48 · answer #4 · answered by sprydle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith sometimes goes against human reasoning. No faith is not forcing yourself to believe something you know is not so.
For instance it takes more faith to believe that there is not God than the fact that God is.
It takes faith to believe that you will cross a bridge over the mighty Mississippi safely.
It takes faith to believe that you will arrive safely to your destination; be it by plane, train, bus, or car.
2006-10-14 14:51:29 · answer #5 · answered by 1saintofGod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But please understand that those who are deep into religion don't think that they're storing untrue data in their minds. To them, what their church teaches is the absolute truth that can't be questioned. They aren't forced to believe, they soak it up like a sponge. A religious person doesn't think of himself as just believing. In his mind, he knows. In most cases, you couldn't blast it out of his head with North Korea's new bomb.
2006-10-14 15:06:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is believing without seeing, just like scientists believe in evolution without proof. Just like atheists believe God is not real without proof.
We all have faith, just in different things.
2006-10-14 14:54:05 · answer #7 · answered by The Question Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that may be true for you but as a child I took it upon myself to go to church to listen to the word of god and to learn about him' I accepted god in my life at a very young age and then I asked my parents to join me so I guess your theory is not all that solid.
some of us truly believe in gods words.
2006-10-14 14:55:27 · answer #8 · answered by sandyjean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith in God is believing in something you can not see.
I can't see God, but you will never convince me He isn't there...
2006-10-14 14:50:26 · answer #9 · answered by Milkaholic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is believing in what you know is true, even if you cannot see it.
God, promises, etc...
2006-10-14 14:48:34 · answer #10 · answered by tienna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋