What is the difference between faith and belief?

Question

Needs to know before Sunday Morning Thanks a lot!!!!!!

Answer 1

Belief is generally a conclusion you've come to, based on your own observations. Faith is believing in something without proof. You come to the conclusion that God exists because you see life all around you...birth and rebirth etc... but you have no physical PROOF that God exists.

So...faith involves belief...but faith is stronger because a belief can be changed, if you have an experience that shows you a different perspective. Faith is blind. No matter what you see or what happens...you still have faith.

Answer 2

Interesting test.

There is a guy who goes out in a field of deep holes with his eyes closed because he believes God will not let him fall into a hole.

If he falls into a hole, he was wrong. His belief was mistaken. A person has imperfection so for me belief is logic based on compelling evidence. There was no betrayal by God, there was no contract before hand or covenant . It was done between the his ears. Just like people do every day when they believe their interpretation of the scripture is perfect they are walking in the field of holes.

Ok, I will go for faith. Linguistically these words can be traded so we here are going beyond the basic meaning.

When you keep trust in the word of God as has been put into your heart by the Holy Spirit, this is faith. I do not think anything else is in the divine sense.

Answer 3

You need faith to have a belief. One can't exist without the other. Here are the dictionary definition for both:
Faith: 1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability. 2. belief that is not based on proof 3. belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion 4. belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.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.: 7. the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc. 8. Christian Theology.
Belief: 1. something believed; an opinion or conviction 2. confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof 3. confidence; faith; trust 4. a religious tenet or tenets; religious creed or faith

Answer 4

Faith is acting as if something is true in the absence of evidence that it is. Belief is knowing that something is true and having evidence that it is. For instance, I don't need faith to know that the sun comes up in the morning. It comes up every morning -- I've seen it. I believe it. I don't need faith for any of the things I KNOW to be true ... that I have experienced to be true. I don't walk around saying things like "I have faith that Thanksgiving will come in November." I know it does! I've experienced it many times! On the other hand, if you brought me to the ocean and told me the water was very cold that day, I'd have to have faith in that because I have no evidence whether it's true or not. I haven't felt it for myself yet, I don't have a thermometer to test it and I certainly can't tell by looking at it if it's cold. Once I go in and experience for myself that it's freezing cold, I don't need the faith anymore because I have proof. I can believe it now.

Hope that helps!

Answer 5

HAH! Unbelievable question! Thank you so much for asking it. There are some fantastic answers here. I'm very sorry but I can't answer it right now because God showed me the real meaning of faith a few months back, but it was so profound and difficult to wrap your head around it that I promptly forgot it. This actually proves that God exists. I hope one day to write a book about it. Every now and again it returns in pieces. The moment I get clarity in this area, I will write it down I assure you. I hope to add a comment to it here when I do.

Answer 6

A belief is something that you know to be true, you have evidence/fact to back it up. I believe that murder is wrong, that is my belief because I have been taught that it is bad. Faith is when you don't have fact or need fact, you just know that what you have faith in is true. Belief is for the head and faith is for the heart.

Answer 7

Belief is an intellectual knowledge of facts. Faith is a spiritual experience resulting in a trust and assurance that you will not be let down.

Belief teaches you that if you touch bare wires you may get a shock. Faith tells you that when your father tosses you into the air, he'll catch you, or that if you trust in Christ, you'll go to heaven.

Belief is knowledge, faith is trust.

Answer 8

Faith is a combination of belief, without proof and with hope. ... Faith is belief without proof. Taking something on faith means believing it without any evidence.

n fact, religious faith should be put in the same category as belief in superstitions

Answer 9

Belief is the acknowledgment that something is true. The devil believes in God.
Faith is basing ones actions or life on a belief. For instance I believe in God and I obey His commands because I have faith in Him and what He says will benefit myself or others. The devil does not have faith in God, that is, the devil does not regard God as the final authority. I'm trying to say that faith involves action, obedience. If we have faith in God, we will obey His will.
Faith is applying our belief in a practical way much as wisdom is applying knowledge in a practical way.

Answer 10

saving faith involves

1) having the facts of the gospel
2) believing the facts
3) loving and leaning of the truth, treasuring Christ

even the demons can do 1 and 2, which would might say is a type of belief but you need all 3 for saving faith