The word "Faith"??????

Question

Why would humans with any reason and intelligence believe in "Faith" which means the belief in something which cannot be proved to be true?

Do you believe in Fairy's?
Do you believe in gobblins?
Do you believe in Santa Claus?

No???? Then why believe in God?

Im not criticising anyone. I would just expect some reasonable answers. If you know your bible then there is a quote by Jesus where he says "The belief in faith is only for the foolish"

dude - you have just turned my question around how brainless is that?

Honey - Isn't God supposed to Judge so who hell do you think you are judging? How do you know Im going to hell? Did he text you?

Anyways God doesn't judge that's why he gave people freedom of will. So where do you get judgment day from? Isn't God supposed to be all forgiving?
There we go again another contradiction.

Answer 1

You show remarkable ignorance.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

True faith then, is given by God's grace and is revelation. As such it is more certain than seeing and physical observations.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.


It is easy to set up a straw man and then knock him down, but that shows neither intelligence nor character.

Answer 2

That is a good question!! Your definition is absolutly true. yet I believe in fairies, I believe in gobblins, and I believe in Santa Claus. I also Believe in God. Have you seen a fairy? Have you seen a gobblin? Have you seen God? If the answer is no, that is no truth that they do not exist. Faith is believing what you don't see. Can you "see" the wind? No. You feel it and it's affects, but you don't see it. Another question about Faith. The Bible says that "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)
prime example in todays application: If you eat tunafish from a can of tuna, How do you know you are eating tuna? Do you know the company that packed it? Did you see the inspectors who stamped the can? do you know it is safe to eat? well, what you do is you eat the tuna and "hope" you don't get sick from it right? you have just exercised "faith" in the Tuna Company that packed the can you ate from. without really seeing all that went into the process. another. what holds you on the face of the earth? Gravity right? can you see gravity? no. can you see the effect of gravity? yes. you believe in something you cant see but you see the effects. Now lets strike home shall we. Why would a young girl who is intelligent, an A student, tell someone her belief in faith in a God she has never seen in Columbine highschool and was willing to die for her belief? for something she can't prove scientifically? faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Just because people don't believe in God and can't see Him does not mean that he doesn't exist. because "faith" defies reason and intelligence. but let me clarify what God has to say: Romans 1:20 says: "the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly "seen", being understood by the things that are made.(Man) even His eternal power and Godhead so that they(mankind) are without excuse. Read also verses 21-25. faith is not seeing, faith is believing without seeing.

Answer 3

You are close, but not quite right in your statement. Faith means believing in something that cannot be proven "Or Disproven" (You forgot those last two words). My question to you would be: Why does any human with reason and intelligence, reject, that which cannot be dis-proven?
I actually find it to be more scientifically plausible to believe in Creation, rather than a "Big Bang" from nothingness. I have an empty shoebox in my closet now for many years and I recently checked and see no living creatures forming.
The bible is the most researched book in this worlds entire history. Archaeological discoveries only prove its historical accuracy to this day. Please post the scripture reference you spoke of, I am wondering where you came up with it. Read the bible for yourself and stop parroting what others tell you to say. Studying both sides of the story, is the key to knowledge.
Peace.

Answer 4

Fairies, gobblins, and Santa Claus are all creations of the imaginations of men. Mankind is a creation of the imagination of God.

"Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.

Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently fear and worship the Lord and turn [entirely] away from evil."

Proverbs 3:5-7


"Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]."

Hebrews 11:1

Answer 5

Chrissie - This is a very good question. St Paul answers it in 1 Cor 2.14. And you are absolutely correct. By themselves people will find faith and the word of God to be "foolishness". This is what Paul teaches. He teaches that the wisdom of God is foolishness to natural man and the wisdom of man is foolishness to God. Faith, you see Chrissie, is a gift of God. It allows us to discern or understand spiritual matters (same chapter in first Corinthians). How can we receive this gift? Well first we must "hear" the gospel of Jesus Christ (Rm 10.17) - not read it, but hear it. Then once it has been heard, we must ask God to forgive us of our sins for what Christ has done and promise with his help to change our lives, to repent. We then ask him to open our hearts to the truth and give us his gift of faith and the Holy Spirit. It's really quite simple. I am a scientist with a Ph.D. I love the gifts God gives us to understand our world with the use of logic and mathematics, but I also have faith in what he did for me on the cross and I want to enjoy eternal life with him and serve him here on earth while I still have life in me. Good question and I hope you will give this faith thing a try.

Answer 6

faith requires no proof &
u either do or u don't.
i have never seen a duckbilledplatypuss, so do i think they don't exist?
no, because others have seen them & i believe they exist.

no, i don't believe in fairies.
no, i don't believe in goblins, but just lately some of the Chav women i've seen & heard with their rolls of fat bulging from under their tanktops & their gutter mouths, could easily b mistaken 4 goblins!
no, i don't believe in santa clause, he was invented 2 make children behave or not get any presents!
faith doesn't harm people, contorting that faith 2 provide excuses 2 kill others of another faith, now that's the only harm i see.
yes i do believe in god,
because he is inside me & all around me
& errrr.....................why not?

Answer 7

good point much of the so called miracles can be explained away by exageration and ignorance of science like virgin births occur all the time. Many in the teen section here.

Stories get exagerated... look at so called historical cowboy and ww2 movies not exactly realistic and how people like Dick Turpin who was a total scumbag heroised.

Faith is what idiots hold onto for some sort of false hope to make them feel better.

this then leads to all sorts of abuse and violence

Answer 8

The Biblical meaning of "faith" is not belief in something that can't be proved to be true. Faith means trust in something you think is true. I have faith in God because I have what seems to me to be good reasons to think there is a God.

With that being said, it's not unreasonable to believe things that can't be proved. In fact, unless it was possible to know something that can't be proved, it wouldn't be possible to prove anything else. Think about it. A proof is basically when you know one thing because of something else. In other words, there are reasons or premises that back up a conclusion. Your conclusion can be no more certain than the premises that lead to the conclusion. So how do you know the premises? Well if you must prove something before you can know it, then you've go to prove the premises, too. To prove them, you need additional premises. But then those have to be proved to.

If you continue this line of thinking, you'll see that one of two things will happen. Either you'll get yourself into an infinite regress or you'll come to some starting point--some basic premise or item of knowledge that doesn't require proof. If you get yourself into an infinite regress, then of course it's impossible to know anything because you can never complete an infinite series of proofs. If it's infinite, then there's no end to it, and therefore it's impossible to complete. So if we know anything at all, then we must be able to know something that can't be proved.

And, in fact, there are many such things. We know, for example, all of our first person subjective points of view, including our thoughts and feelings. We know these things because they are immediately grasped. We merely have to reflect inward to know these things. We also know the basic laws of logic--the law of identity, non-contradiction, and excluded middle. We couldn't even make proofs unless we had laws of inference, so the laws of inference themselves cannot be the result of proofs. They must be known a-priori. We mathmatical truths such as 2 + 2 = 4 and geometric truths such as the fact that if a straight line runs through two parallel lines, then the opposite interior angles are equal. We don't need to prove these things. We only need to reflect inward, and we are able to grasp, merely by understanding what we're talking about, that they are true. We also have items of knowledge that are less certain (that is, it's possible we could be wrong), but that nevertheless seem far more reasonable to believe than to deny. For example, we know that our senses correspond to an external world that's real. In other words, we aren't dreaming, we aren't brains in vats, and we aren't plugged into the matrix. We also know the uniformity of nature--the future will resemble the past. The uniformity of nature is the basis for all knowledge by experience, all probability, and all empiracle verification, which is the basis for all science. Without it, we couldn't have science. But science can't prove it without engaging in viciously circular reasoning.

Some people argue that belief in God fits in this last category of things that are reasonable to believe because it is naturally for people to form the belief and to hold the belief until they are given good reason to think it's not true. Just as everybody assumes that what they see really corresponds to an external world, many people assume that their internal "awareness" of God corresponds to an actual God.

Answer 9

I agree, our critical faculties will only ever be swayed by evidence that can be scruitinised or logic that can be deconstructed.

However, faith in general, and not necessarily with any religious conviction, can sometimes be the only source of hope when everything (or everybody) seems to be holding you back. Faith might never move mountains but it at least fends off despair.

Answer 10

We can't really prove many things to be true. I can't prove that the sun will rise tomorrow, i have faith that it will from past experiences but i can't prove that it will. People have faith for may reasons, faith in God provides comfort and hope to people so why would you want to take that away from them Just because you don't have faith don't criticise others because they do.