2007-05-20 16:02:39 · 24 answers · asked by Stew 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Faith is a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; a loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person and a complete confidence in a person or plan.
Faith isn't proof.
Proof is any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something; a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it; the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something.
2007-05-21 00:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by )0( Cricket Song 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith addresses the supernatural and no one can prove or disprove the existence of the supernatural so I would agree with you that faith proves nothing other than the willingness of a faithful person to believe in something that he/she cannot prove.
It is like believing in a Tea Pot circling the moon and you have been taught since birth that the Tea Pot is there and it is the work of a supernatural being and you must have faith in the Tea Pot. If you have been taught that since birth and that is all you know then you have faith in the Tea Pot. So faith does prove that you have a belief but it does not prove that the belief is real or proves the existence of the Tea Pot.
Care for a sip of Tea?
2007-05-20 23:11:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith is not a tangible quality. IT is not one of the five senses. Faith proves nothing but everyone has faith of some sort in their world view. For Christianity lots of people have faith in a God. Even atheists have faith that we are here by evolution. Everyone has it. It proves nothing, nor does it determine intelligence.
2007-05-20 23:16:55 · answer #3 · answered by Eric K 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only thing that faith absolutely proves is that some people believe in Faith on faith, which is a bit of illogical hubris.
2007-05-20 23:09:59 · answer #4 · answered by Terry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely-I have faith that I will do well in an interview this week, but it doesn't mean that I'll get the job. I have faith that my mail is going to come tomorrow, but there's no guarantee an earthquake won't destroy the post office. I have faith that my car will start in the morning, but there's no guarantee that someone won't siphon my gas while I'm asleep.
2007-05-20 23:07:32 · answer #5 · answered by scrambled_egg81 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so faith proves nothing , it depends on the way you deal with it.Example if you are really spiritualistic towards something you really want for the good of your wishes, I think faith comes in.Determination as to my own thinking relates closely to faith.
2007-05-20 23:13:33 · answer #6 · answered by shines56 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everything we do is by faith, whether in the spiritual realm or the physical realm. Example; some people can't leave their house because they have lost faith in the safety of the outside world. It's a terrible thing to lose faith.
2007-05-20 23:14:12 · answer #7 · answered by expertless 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely. Faith is nothing more than a glorified guessing game, no more reliable than a roll of the dice or a flip of a coin. Blind chance proves nothing more than statistically, it MAY stumble upon truth randomly but is not by any means an epistemologically worthwhile procedure.
2007-05-20 23:06:17 · answer #8 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Faith proves nothing to anyone other than the faithful.
I may believe wholeheartedly in something, but that doesn't make it objectively true.
2007-05-20 23:08:01 · answer #9 · answered by N 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes... that is true. But its really a lot more serious than that.
'Faith' is a vacuous substitute for 'evidence'.
Faith is used to support 'belief'... a vacuous substitute for 'knowledge'.
Faith + Belief ---> willful ignorance and self-delusion
2007-05-20 23:11:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋