What Is Faith?

Answer 1

A trust in something that u cant see.
believing that is real.

Answer 2

When accepting a statement as true, there are two basic methods. The first is reason. It is when the known evidence points to the statement being true, and when the truth of the statement doesn't contradict other knowledge. The second is faith. It is when one accepts a statement as true without evidence for it, or in the face of evidence against it.

The result of using faith consistently is the complete inability to think. Without any criteria for accepting a statement as true, every random idea, whether true or false, would be just as likely to be accepted. Contradictions would exist. No higher level abstractions could be made. Faith nullifies the mind. To the degree ideas are taken on faith, the process of thinking is subverted.

Faith is an act of mental destruction. If there is no evidence for a claim, then accepting it is irrational. It is more likely to be false then true (since there are more false ideas then true ones, being that their is only one reality). Building a structure of knowledge on such a flimsy foundation will leave it shaky and unstable. Eventually, even if confronted with evidence against it, ones mind will be so dependent on the belief that fear of ones world view collapsing will encourage one to reject the evidence. When this happens, one acts against reality. This is an act of destruction.

Answer 3

During 1800s, Anthropologists had a problem as to how
to classify human beings. One resercher proposed the
expression "intelligent animal". After advanced studies
on monkeys, it was dropped. Another reseacher proposed
"tool using animal". After observing some animals
making wooden tools and sharpening them with knife like
stones, it was dropped. Another researcher proposed
"weapon using animal". A decade ago, a rare film was
shot in African forests. One short monkey was hit very
badly by a big monkey. The short monkey prepared a
wooden knife using stones and hid it on the top of a
tree. After some days, when the big monkey came to
attack the short monkey, it ran up to the tree for the
weapon it has hid and killed the big monkey. The one
thing that the anthropologists found with any group of
human beings, even if they did not have contacts with
the out side world for thousands of years, is
spirituality with some form of religion. So, man is a
"spiritual animal" if you want to call him that way.
"Manush" (human) was so named because he has "Manas" a
mind higher than that of the animals which realises the
divinity in creation. It was present since the creation
of human beings. Religion is the characteristic feature
of most of the human beings. It is as eternal and
and as unchanging as the Almighty.

Answer 4

In a nutshell, it's synonymous with courage.

Courage because faith requires one to believe in that which he/she cannot see.

Faith is happiness.

Jesus said so to "doubting Thomas" after the Resurrection. Happy are those, Jesus said, who have not seen and yet still believe.

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Answer 5

Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.

Answer 6

Faith is believing that God is who he says he is and that he will do the things that he has promised to do.

Answer 7

Truly understanding, knowing and consciously being aware that God Al-Mighty knows all that you are doing, and that you should praise him and do good deeds on the planet so that when you meet him after the test is over you can receive your reward.

That is what I think faith is

I am a Muslim

Answer 8

Faith is taking God at his word.

Answer 9

To me, faith is believing in Jesus Christ.

Answer 10

Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita(17.2)
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: According to the modes of nature acquired by the embodied soul, one's faith can be of three kinds—in goodness, in passion or in ignorance. Now hear about this.

Further Krishna says Bhagavad-gita(17.3)
O son of Bharata, according to one's existence under the various modes of nature, one evolves a particular kind of faith. The living being is said to be of a particular faith according to the modes he has acquired.

Srila Prabhupada writes in the purport.
The word sraddha or "faith," is very significant in this verse. sraddha, or faith, originally comes out of the mode of goodness. One's faith may be in a demigod or some created God or some mental concoction. One's strong faith is supposed to be productive of works of material goodness. But in material conditional life, no works are completely purified. They are mixed. They are not in pure goodness. Pure goodness is transcendental; in purified goodness one can understand the real nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As long as one's faith is not completely in purified goodness, the faith is subject to contamination by any of the modes of material nature. The contaminated modes of material nature expand to the heart. Therefore according to the position of the heart in contact with a particular mode of material nature, one's faith is established. It should be understood that if one's heart is in the mode of goodness his faith is also in the mode of goodness. If his heart is in the mode of passion, his faith is also in the mode of passion. And if his heart is in the mode of darkness, illusion, his faith is also thus contaminated. Thus we find different types of faith in this world, and there are different types of religions due to different types of faith. The real principle of religious faith is situated in the mode of pure goodness, but because the heart is tainted we find different types of religious principles. Thus according to different types of faith, there are different kinds of worship.

Answer 11

to be sure of the thns we hope for, to be certain of the thns we cannot see.tak ur Bible and read further on the subsequent verses.
all the best.