2006-12-04 10:37:28 · 14 answers · asked by Dan 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I mean our personal faith in God, and what He is capable of.
2006-12-04 10:40:41 · update #1
Damages: hypocrites
Reinforces it: the resurrection of Christ
2006-12-04 10:38:35 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What reinforces your faith is quite simply: faith. A choice to believe is a strength in believing. What obviously hurts it is doubt and that's why it's shunned.
But faith and doubt by themselves are just empty, perhaps you should look at your own life and see how this faith has either helped you or hindered you in your life and you might go either way as far as damaging or reinforcing is concerned.
Now if you find something of benefit in your faith then from this place you may actually have something.
In my own life and the lives of christians around me the biggest hinderance has been for christians not being able to offer anything through their religious practice other than being able to answer questions through faith. If christians focus on the benefits of their faith and manifest them in their lives then it becomes a reinforcement for christianity and I think everyone around you notices when you have something of benefit. So my advice to anyone looking to reinforce their faith is to develop and manifest the benefits they receive from this faith.
2006-12-04 10:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing that damages it is lack of faith. Anything Holy reinforces it.
2006-12-04 10:40:36 · answer #3 · answered by Spike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeking the reasonable answers to the things that concern or cause you to question your faith reinforce your faith.
2006-12-04 10:39:48 · answer #4 · answered by BigPappa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prayer, and God's grace reinforces our faith and damage is done to our faith by our failure to LIVE our faith as true disciples of Christ.
2006-12-04 10:42:11 · answer #5 · answered by Mamma mia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what damages my faith is not accepting that things are never simple and that there are reasons for everything, even when I can't see them now.
what helps: remembering the light bulb moments when things made sense. the faith of others, living and departed. certain words, quotes like Julian of norwich, "All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well", and that bit from Proverbs 4, "Above all things, keep watch over your heart as therein lie the wellsprings of life."
2006-12-08 04:02:19 · answer #6 · answered by Vivienne T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doubt damages it.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God.
Faith without works is dead. If you have faith..then you will do something with it, tell others..not just sit idle.
2006-12-04 10:39:50 · answer #7 · answered by Judah's voice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the person But tribulations and hard times can do both.
God intends for them to draw us closer and strengthen us, but often people get angry and doubt Gods power or sincerity or love.
2006-12-04 10:46:08 · answer #8 · answered by micheletmoore 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To really understand you need to view a film called the secret. It describes how we have total control over our world and exhistance. Everything that occurs in our lives is there for the purposes of teaching us to grow in our spirituality by reacting in the most positive way to challenges that occur in our lives - in doing so, we lift our vibrations.
Everything that we see, hear, touch, and think is of god and ats its most finite is pure energy. By tuning into the high vibrations you tune into god and by desire you begin to become co creator of your own destiny
2006-12-04 13:23:45 · answer #9 · answered by lit_spirit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 A poor testimony
2 A good testominy
2006-12-04 10:39:24 · answer #10 · answered by bbjones9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋