What is faith?

Question

And how should it be used in terms of religion?

There are a few definitions of "faith." I'm just wondering if we are all talking about the same thing.

Answer 1

Dogmatic certainty in the absence of proof and sometimes in spite of contrary evidence.

Answer 2

We may define ‘faith’ as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. When there is evidence, no one speaks of ‘faith’. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. Christians hold that their faith does good, but other faiths do harm. At any rate, they hold this about the Communist faith. What I wish to maintain is that all faiths do harm.

Answer 3

Faith is basically three things.

The first thing is evidence of the things that cannot be seen. Air, atoms, subatomic particles, love, ideas, emotions, someone who you never seen (like me for instance), and so on, are examples of things one has to take on faith. Many of these things people will have no evidence for, yet they know they must exist and as such they have to take on faith. This includes assumptions, hypothesis, experiments and the like because without faith, what meaning have those things?

The second thing faith is, is fidelity. The word for "fidelity" is often translated as "faith" because they are the same concept (like "justice" and "righteousness", "just" and "right" are the same).

Finally, the third thing, faith is confidence and trust in someone or something. This is usually seen as a belief, for some reason as blind, baseless belief. However, one cannot have that kind of faith without a reason. Confidence and trust must be honestly shown or earned.

It should be noted that faith, without love, is nothing. In other words, love gives meaning to faith.

How should faith be used in terms of religion? It should be used to test religion. Our faith should be like a precious treasure. Precious treasures need to be secured, guarded, and put into the hands of people or things which can be trusted with it. One might want to put a little faith into a thing and see what kind of return one gets from it.

In this regard, many people like to throw away their faith on something spurious, temporary, or on instant gratification. But faith should be cautiously invested, never thrown away.

In my opinion, faith and religion just do not mix well. From what I have seen all my life, religion seems to be what one does in order to avoid having faith. Faith in God, now that is another story. Faith in God may have nothing at all to do with religion, and everything to do with righteousness, eternal joy, and security.

Try putting a little faith into religion and what do you get? Nothing but maybe a temporary feeling of maybe you do something good. Put a little faith into God and what do you get? You get the real thing, the real God will be at your door knocking (that means He will be urging your heart to allow Him to come into your life forever).

Answer 4

Faith is believing in something that can not be seen or proven to another person. It is based on a certainty that God exists but with no ability to prove it to someone else.

Answer 5

Faith is believing without seeing.

Answer 6

It's troublesome to propose an opinion based on any testament, all are falsified , twisted and profoundly reflect a clear immoral purpose by human authors.

Answer 7

Believing in something even though you can't see it, or feel it.

Remember Thomas right after Jesus died on the cross.

Answer 8

F-forsaking
A-all
I- I
T-trust in
H-him