I dont just mean God;I mean anything.you dont tak a step foward or backward without first having faith the ground your stepping on is solid.You dont put food in your mouth without assuming or having faith that the food is safe to eat;you wouldnt go to work is you did not believe that you would be paid for your labor.You wouldnt go to school or take you kid to scholl if you didnt have faith that the school was meeting your needs.And you wouldnt make friends with someone if you didt have faith that that person would be friendly back.
So why is faith so familiar?But yet so foriegn to people when it comes to God?
Hebrews 11:6-But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
2007-01-13 06:57:43 · 15 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree Maurice but what many call faith is lame at best.
I have faith that God is smart enough to have a plan for the salvation of each and every one of us that is going to work 100 percent of the time.
This is real faith.
Those who think that God is going to sit back and watch most of the souls go to hell have only partial faith.
This to me is not much better than no faith at all.
Love and blessings Don
2007-01-13 07:12:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is given a measure of faith. There is also a saving faith, which is how we become saved. It is familiar because we all have a measure of faith which is from the beginning, before you were a seed in your mother's womb. Then after being saved we must begin to rely on faith that comes from the Word of God. We must believe without naturally seeing what it is we are obey nor are we able to see exactly our way out of situations, trials, tribulations etc. So the faith your talking about that is so foreign only comes from the Holy Spirit and increases as you are led by the Spirit.
2007-01-13 15:13:55 · answer #2 · answered by Putta Rat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's parsing the semantics of the word faith. I "believe" there is a floor believe me, but that isn't a faith-based belief, it's based on overwhelming evidence -- the past several times I stepped on the floor, it was there.
Since I don't recall dying several times, I have no information about whether there is a heaven or hell. I also don't know if there's a God or a Satan or whether Jesus ever existed.
Therefor, those things are faith.
2007-01-13 15:02:25 · answer #3 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ok if you use faith in that sense then you are open to evidence. If the floor fails to hold, if the food is indeed poisoned, if the school wasn't meeting their needs... see where I'm going with this.
You had faith in god, there is no evidence that he exists so now you rule him out, fine no privilidged position then.
2007-01-13 15:10:46 · answer #4 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have evidence and solid personal experience that the ground ahead of you will always be solid. Faith is not a factor when there is evidence. There has never been a grain of evidence that there is a god. Your analogy is useless.
So no, I don't only not agree, you are hopelessly wrong.
2007-01-13 15:07:56 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disagree.
It isn't "faith" that the ground is solid in front of you, it's experience. If you've walked across your kitchen floor every day for 15 years, you can't call it faith that you know the floor is solid.
Please, don't make up new meanings for words.
2007-01-13 15:02:30 · answer #6 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So you can't tell the difference between believing the ground isnt going to disintegrate between your feet and believing in supernatural garbage?
How do you find time to worship God when you're praying to Kali, and Odin and the invisible pink unicorn - they require belief too and you seem to be an expert.
2007-01-13 15:03:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't take quite as much faith to trust that the floor beneath your feet is solid as it does to trust in God...
Then, again, in my grandma's house, maybe it does.....
2007-01-13 15:23:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No my dear miss-informed christian..... in your typical hurry you forgot the key word....trust.....all you do is trust the ground is gonna be there.....you trust ur kids school to do wat you want them to do....you don't have faith...you trust.....which i know if u trouble your mind a little bit you would undertsnad the difference between the two....you trust in your own judgement.....and the judgement of others...you don't put your faith in them....grow a little...trust people...not something you cannot c....
2007-01-13 15:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok, so faith in everything but not in god then
2007-01-13 15:02:27 · answer #10 · answered by FAUUFDDaa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋