How to believe ?

Question

Do you believe because you know or because you don't know ?

to Kofi: How do you believe someone is a wise man?

Answer 1

Your missing a noun from your question.

Answer 2

Belief, aside from mambo jumbo, should be based on proof.

If you value your life, and do not settle for a leash . . . like most people do, then to believe something or in someone has to be tackled like a scientific pursuit.

List the offerings (output) and immediately assess how relevant to your goals are (I hope you have realistic goals !) If they do not concern you tangibly, my advice is to can it. There are too many wild geese to chase, for now settle for the ducks in your back garden !

Search for proof - validation and verification. Any phenomenon no matter how fascinating, should be verifiable and reproducible. Don't let the charlatans sweep you off your feet by make-believe visions.

If the phenomenon is still there, NEVER assume belief ! Belief is essentially knowledge, and is like an expanding sphere. The inside is what you know (or at least what you think you know), and the outside is what you don't know yet (or may never know!). The irony is the surface of the sphere that grows as your knowledge grows. Meaning, the more you know, the more questions you should have !?

So, anyone selling the line for absolute truth, belief, or knowledge, has killed his or her growing bubble of wisdom ! Don't let them kill you.

Answer 3

Belief is, in simple form, an idea.
A subjective idea.
An interpretation of something even without verification.
Even saying G-d exists is a universal truth but without human verification.
Wether we know or don't, is not the basis for belief, but the interpretation of an idea that we believe. Must belief be based on "truth"?
Their are many theories on what truth is.
Therefore, is truth belief in it's correct definition?

Answer 4

Most people may believe
what they see
what they hear&
what they could smell
but only a few have the reasoning power
to believe the things only if they are real by lateral thinking
sometimes i believe things as i said earlier
and sometimes i believe things as i said afterwards

Answer 5

it depends on what the topic is. Some things in life you learned, some you learned and questioned and got new answers and those answers you could either believe, question more or dismiss, and some things in life you have to believe in on faith alone.

Answer 6

How to know?
Do you know because you believe or because you don't believe?

Does that answer your question?

Answer 7

Neither, I believe because I presume to know and yet know absolutely nothing for certain!

Answer 8

I'm quite ashamed to say I believe because I know.

I quite unexpectedly encountered the reality of God one day.

It was frightening. I was literally shaking for three days following.

Now I know.

My doubts don't revolve around the reality of God, but the foundation of my faith. Since I believe because I have seen, my faith is not faith, it is knowledge.

If Abraham's faith was counted to him as righteousness, what is my knowledge worth? Where is the basis of my salvation?

Sometimes it scares me alot, but Thomas was not rebuked or rejected, he was simply robbed of the blessing for his skepticism and ultimate encounter with the risen Lord.

Hope this helps.
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Answer 9

Believe...what? Well, I believe something because I wanna believe it. Because of hope, faith or despair.

Answer 10

Ouch. My brain just inverted itself.

I believe in things because I can rationalize them, whether they are true or not.

Answer 11

Believe what? W. C. Fields is reported to have said, "I believe I'll have another beer."