What's the difference between wishful-thinking and faith?

Question

It looks like there is at least one intelligent person here doesn't it, aprildin?

Thanks for your answer, reginachi..., it shows promise.

Answer 1

Faith is wishful thinking taken to ridiculous extremes.

Answer 2

Wishful Thinking Comes From The Mind. Faithful Thinking Comes From The Soul. And Hopes It Comes Out True.

Answer 3

Depends on your definition of Faith. If by faith you mean something like I have absolute faith that the result of 1+1=2 there is a world of difference. wishful thinking at best probabilistic. If by faith you mean The tooth fairy or god then actually wishful thinking has a slim probability chance of materialising. Like wining the lottery for example.Having faith in angels is less than wishful thinking

Answer 4

Wishful thinking does not rest upon any reason or evidence, faith rests upon evidence, reason, and assurance.

Wishful thinking is betting against all odds,having confidence or faith for no reason, without promise, assurance,or Jesus and contrary to what should be expected.

Christian faith is a reasonable expectation or confident expectation based upon promises, assurance,testimony, eyewitnesses,character, experience,reason, and anything else that calls forth your reasonable trust.

Faith is also patiently waiting for the fulfillment of something that has already been started, begun, set in order, seen, promised,happened in history(time ans space).

Answer 5

Let me copy one of my previous answers, it may help you.

There are 5 ways we gather knowledge.

(1) Due to Honor or Respect to the Source (Conviction)
(2) Will (Liking)
(3) Seeing and Listening (an agreement through pondering views)
(4) Logical thinking (reasoning by analogy)
(5) Belief (unbroken tradition)

But 'Realization' supersedes all these 5. It then becomes your own experience and not a blind belief. No one can change you after that. Until then, any one can change you to any ideology.

(Source: Chanki Sutta, Lord Buddha's teachings. Read this wonderful sutta on this link:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.095x.than.html)

Answer 6

enemy of God and friend of God, Make believer and believer, Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot, Cain and Abel, Satan and God, Atheist and True Christian, Denominational Christian and a Son of God. Most people speak of things about religion and God they have never experienced except to learn these things from traditions of men( their parents) and here is what the Bible does say about these types of peoples, these are wishful thinkers; Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Now on the other hand faith is nothing less than God inside a person, and faith is what created this world in which we live, if you want the Bible explanation of faith here it is; Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Answer 7

faith is believing in something not yet seen and not needing proof. wishful thinking is desiring something but needing proof. when you wish for something you already know the object in which you are wishing for. But with faith you just believe without proof and have loyalty to that belief. To put another way faith is divine and wishful thinking is humanly possible

Answer 8

Wishful thinking is like having hope in winning the lottery...Faith is a gift of God and through this faith comes revelation.

Answer 9

Wishful thinking is when you wish that something will happen - you don't really expect it to, but just dreaming about it happening.

Faith is when you have an assurance that something will happen, and you have an EXPECTATION that it will happen - and you even begin to act like it has already happened!! That is faith!

Answer 10

Faith is wishful thinking with the advantage that the faithful believe they can act in a certain way, or avoid acting in ways contrary to their religious rules, and thereby increase their odds that their wishes will be fulfilled by a higher power.