If you wrote " I have "faith" that 2+2=5 " on your homework, you'd get an F.
Saying " I have faith that my green sofa is the portal for my other life" would get you committed for life.
So why is "faith" used as an acceptable reason for the existence of religion?
2006-12-19 07:38:04 · 17 answers · asked by Jmyooooh 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Faith in people or that your house is going to be there when you'll get home is not a "belief in something with no evidence".... there is substancial evidence that shows that houses don't generally fly out all of a sudden or that the probability that your house will get struck by a meteor is very slim... You have faith in people because they have shown you that they can be trusted, however you know that if you were to venture in a dangerous part of town, you'd be very cautious ( again, because there has been evidence that showed that it wasn't safe).
Those kinda "faith" have been backed up by factual evidence and statistics...
2006-12-19 07:48:55 · update #1
I have faith that I will win the lottery today....I lost again?
Maybe if I pray relay hard.....I still lost.
2006-12-19 07:52:12 · answer #1 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. Everyone has faith in something. You have faith that the floor will hold you up or else you would not stand on it. That is faith... trust in someone or something. Just because you have faith in something does not always make it true. The floor could collapse any minute
to your surprise, even though you trusted the structure. The same is with religion. Many people put faith in things that don't exist. However, that faith is validated when you know God exists and you are putting trust in something or someone you know exists. To know of the existence of God, you must examine the scriptures and history and decide for yourself based on sound evidence.
2006-12-20 05:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You do use faith all the time.
When you read an instruction manual of how to bake a cake, and then start to follow the instructions. You are doing that in faith that the cake will be allright because the author is Betty Crocker and she has had success in other recipes.
We do exactly the same thing with the Bible. God gives us instructions and we follow them and it comes out right, so we continue to follow other instructions..
Faith is based on following God's instructions even though you may not have done this before. The first time is the hardest, after that you realise that God is always right..
What we call facts is when someone else has seen Nepal for instance and they tell us that it exists even though we haven's personally seen it.. Faith in God is the same, it works for me and will work for you if you do it the same way I did and I did it like the bible told me to do.. My answer would be a fact to you that it worked for me..
It is a fact and heavily documented fact that men walked on the moon, but today many people still deny it.. They do not believe the Govt., NASA, or the pictures (they would say are faked) They would personally have to walk on the moon I guess.
Christianity is heavily documented and many still will not believe.
2006-12-19 07:44:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good question actually, but the answer is clear.
Looking only from a political standpoint - if the government went around saying "Your faith, according to our records, is not historically proven! Therefore what you believe is false! Therefore you get an F! Therefore you go to jail!," I don't think our common people would be very happy. When our ancestors set forth this nation, they had a 'seperation of church and state.' I think this is taken WAY too far sometimes, but basically it says no one can force you to believe something within the law.
There are many other reasons but you and many others would probably brush it off as unreasonable because you would have to use faith to believe it.
2006-12-19 07:48:49 · answer #4 · answered by L-dog =) 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is not foolishness. Trying to say 2+2=5 is. You can not make a false statement, and then say 'you can not make it to be true by saying it is true' to prove faith wrong. There is a substance to the Christian faith-it is not blind. Do an Internet search on Jesus, and see if there is not something there. Faith simply means "what you believe'. Would you jump into the river if you believed you could not swim?
2006-12-19 07:49:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
some style of fabric? i understand i've got seen it previously, I do purely no longer undergo in techniques now. Zip lock bag? Reynold's foil with the shinny ingredient out? My grandmother in Cuba used to make tamales from scratch and he or she used the real leaves from the corn head.
2016-10-18 12:10:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is only the right faith when it is directed to someone that is worthy of trust. And God is the only ONE worthy of that completely.
2006-12-19 08:04:27 · answer #7 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, in religion Faith is considered a virtue and all religions keep coming up with even more improbable things with which to test their believers' faith, like virgin births, miracles and so on
2006-12-19 07:44:15 · answer #8 · answered by tammers 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
you have faith that your dog, once trained, will do its business outside, not on the carpet.
You have faith that your job will exist tomorrow.
You may have never been to Morocco or Nepal, but have faith that there IS a Morocco and Nepal.
2006-12-19 07:43:43 · answer #9 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have faith when you sit down that the chair will hold you up. At least, with Christian faith, we can base it on an empty tomb..
2006-12-19 07:44:27 · answer #10 · answered by John 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋