Why does it seem to me, that more people have belief than faith? Which is most important to you?

Question

My definition of
Belief: Taking statments in relgious books as fact regardless of facts or evidence leading to some other answer.
Faith: the ability to no matter what fact or idea you face to say " ok thats how god did based on what knowledge I have available"

Answer 1

Actually belief and faith are the same thing. When you have faith in something you BELIEVE that it is true. When you believe in something without a shred of clear, unequivocal, unarguable, incontrovertible proof that it is true, that is FAITH. Most people do not seem to grasp the difference between "belief" (faith without proof) and "knowledge:" which means that it is backed by the kind of proof that is beyond all possible argument because it can be demonstrated, and can clearly be seen to anybody regardless of whether he wants to believe it or not, that it IS true.
No matter how strongly and passionately you may believe in a particular thing, that does not automatically make it true. So if you stand on the roof of a tall building, and believe with every shred of your soul and being, that you can launch yourself off that rooftop into thin air and God will keep you from crashing to the ground - word of advice, don't try it - at home or anywhere else. Believing don't make it so. lol.

Answer 2

Both definitions sound like the same statement a person who believes the Bible and has faith in it would say and so I don't see the difference in this context because they do take what is in a book as fact regardless of any evidence to the contrary and do say, no matter what fact or idea they face, "ok that's how god did based on what knowledge I have available".

Answer 3

Belief do not need faith..........like belief in ghost,power of money........Faith must have strong and good belief......like your religion.In this world not all things can had truth answer.We may not had to search for all truth answers but one most important one is that we are going to die and what have we done and what will we be after we die.We had past and future life because we had yesterday ,today and tomorrow.May God Bless You ..Ai Mi Tuo Fo

Answer 4

Fath is Action based on Belief sustained by Confidence. It's a chioice.

Answer 5

my definition of belief : taking statements from people who have had evidence or accepting the evidence you have had personally , this cannot be stated as fact if not had by all thus making it belief

i do not have faith
i have a belief

Answer 6

Both are important but faith is the Icing on the Cake.

Answer 7

Belief can be intellectual and passive.

Faith weathers all storms. It practices what it preaches. It is the light shining in darkness.

Answer 8

more and more people are relying on our vast supply of science and technology to prove everything. *sigh* this is wrong we should have faith in God in order to know things never be doubtful of God and always ALWAYS PRAY

Answer 9

Both, you can't have one without the other

Answer 10

in have both one won't work without the other