Think about it. If you went to church every Sunday of your life. You kind of brain washed. Since you were a kid you were taught stuff and you believe them.
It's like this. When I was a toddler my dad always bought me Steelers gear. So when I was 7 I was a Steeler fan. I really had no choice.
2007-01-31 10:13:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Faith is believing in the real True God, the Creator of the heavens & the earths & the seas.
Believing a lie is being hypnotized or tricked.
2007-01-31 10:23:17 · answer #1 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a difference between what you describe - conditionalization and faith . People are conditionalized by their family , peers, and society to believe certain things like the Steelers are the best (uuhmmm GO BEARS ! ) , racisim is closer in nature to this than faith is.
Faith is belief in the intangible , though some people have claimed seeing or hearing some of the things we have faith in . For the most part they are not physical entities. Everyone has faith in something . You might have faith that your parents love you . In fact they may actually detest you and can't wait until you are 18 and they can kick you out of the house . You might have faith in something as basic as when it rains it will eventually stop , might not actually , you don't KNOW that to be true .
If you have faith in God , you believe he exists , though you have never really seen him. If you're a Christian you are "taking someone's word for it" ( the Bible) . If you are Agnostic , maybe you believe in something but have no name for it , that is simply belief .
At the end of the day most people come to some belief in a divine power greater than themselves . Very few people die Atheists at an old age . This might be a calling to faith or fear not to believe in something and be proven wrong in the afterlife ... but eventually , at a minimum people BELIEVE in something greater than themselves.
2007-01-31 11:35:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all have a choice if we are going to believe in Jesus or not. Just going to church don't mean that you have faith. Faith is believing absolute trust, confident hope. Faith is given us as a gift from God. Only through Jesus can we have faith.
2007-01-31 10:20:55 · answer #3 · answered by salvation 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh. No. I'm sure a lot of kids feel that way. But if you think you're being brainwashed, hypnotized, yada, yada, yada, then go ahead. But it's actually the "living word of God" and the truth". You don't have to believe in it if you don't want to. And if you don't like something then you don't have to like it. Be your own person. That's why you were on the planet Earth: to set a purpose for your own life. Simple as that.
2007-01-31 10:19:45 · answer #4 · answered by purplesweetie1213 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Haing faith is a personal thing between a person and GOD . No one forces you to have faith, it is something that is developed over time with experiences with GOD. I was allowed and encouraged to attend as many different types of churches as I wanted to as my parents wanted me to make up my own mind. I am a southern Baptist.
2007-01-31 10:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by flutterby_bluesky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are certainly those who are forced into any religion, but you're wrong in thinking everybody is like that. I've had religion forced onto me, and I hated it for the longest time, but now I really like it. Plus, how do you explain converts and such? Those who come into religion as adults?
2007-01-31 10:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by ImagoDei 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is generally defined as the following definitions indicating that it is a voluntary condition based on personal belief. Hypnotized or tricked implies that one surrenders or is deprived of their own control.
faith /feɪθ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[feyth] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2.belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
3.belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims.
4.belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty.
5.a system of religious belief: the Christian faith; the Jewish faith.
6.the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.: Failure to appear would be breaking faith.
7.the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.: He was the only one who proved his faith during our recent troubles.
8.Christian Theology. the trust in God and in His promises as made through Christ and the Scriptures by which humans are justified or saved.
—Idiom
9.in faith, in truth; indeed: In faith, he is a fine lad.
[Origin: 1200–50; ME feith < AF fed, OF feid, feit < L fidem, acc. of fidés trust, akin to fīdere to trust. See confide]
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2007-01-31 10:40:32 · answer #7 · answered by mykalbarton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. Faith is an existential response to a nonrational intuition of truth.
2007-01-31 10:17:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im a steelers fan. my father was a giants fan, but did not shove them onto me, nor did he shove any of his personal beliefs onto me, nor did my mother, im gratefull for that because it is similar to brainwashing.
2007-01-31 10:19:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, just the opposite it true. Lacking faith is like being hypnotized or tricked.
2007-01-31 10:17:28 · answer #10 · answered by rbarc 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋