2006-11-13 03:28:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not nescessarily, but knowledge can certainly inspire faith! The more you learn about (God) the more you appreciate (God) and the more you will want to adhere to (God's) principles!
I put God in parentheses because this can hold true for others about anything... it's true for me about Jehovah God!
2006-11-13 03:40:55 · answer #1 · answered by themom 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith defintiely comes from a lack of knowledge. Believing in something without questioning what you've been told and looking for evidence tells me there is a lack of knowledge and common sense
2006-11-13 13:30:26 · answer #2 · answered by GayAtheist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is BASED ON knowledge. You often here that CHristianity is about taking the leap of blind faith, as though there were no rational cognitive reasons for placing your confidence in a person.
Many things serve to substantiate or validate faith. Red Sea Crossing. Life of Christ. Resurrection of Christ. Exact fulfillment of multiple scores of prophecies. Numerous eyewitness accounts, including what is called hostile witnesses, which are those people who confirm an event even though it will have unfavorable conseqences for them, meaning the desire to lie about the event would be enormous but the evidence is so utterly overwhelming that it would be impossible to lie and not be corrected by someone.
The physical life and observable deeds of Jesus Christ were to the apostles knowledge. They later became faith. As with us, we first learn about the life, teachings and the things Christ did, and we place our confidence in him based on those.
The truth is, a belief such as evolution is a philosophy in the truest sense because it requires one to belief something in spite of the lack of evidence. See www.apologetics.org.
2006-11-13 12:08:16 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe faith comes from knowledge and not that knowledge is caused by faith. if you did not know something then how could you have faith in it? If we did not know we had government leaders, how could we have faith in their leadership? You can not have one without the other but with both you get a full picture.
2006-11-13 11:34:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A limited amount of knowledge will inspire faith, but faith usually becomes an obstacle to gaining more knowledge, as one refuses to see anything that doesn't fit preconceived notions.
2006-11-13 11:31:17 · answer #5 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No faith is belief without knowledge by definition.
2006-11-13 11:39:58 · answer #6 · answered by uncle J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith.
Faith is not necessarily knowledge.
Faith is believing without doubt.
That can I suppose, come from knowledge but it itself is not knowledge.
2006-11-13 11:38:17 · answer #7 · answered by elibw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just the opposite.
2006-11-13 11:30:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes I would consider faith knowladge.
If you belive in god, wholehardedly you have the knowlagdge of his love.
2006-11-13 11:34:19 · answer #9 · answered by lady_of_the_stars97412 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Faith is the beginning of Knowledge.
2006-11-13 11:30:32 · answer #10 · answered by Kenneth G 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋