when a doctor believes that his patient will live or die , believes so only because its based on the available medical knowledge and is a practical way to look at things.
But when someone has faith in a God and believes that he or she will pull through an illness due to faith does so with no logical proof to back it up what so ever.
Dont you think that faith without any hint of proof based on logic makes no sense at all?
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2007-05-30 23:41:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No sense what-so-ever.
2007-05-30 23:46:21 · answer #1 · answered by Afi 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your last sentence, your conclusion, is absolutely right. Real faith should bring immediate proof or a sign that proof is forthcoming. With proof who needs logic?
As to your second paragraph. It would seem that faith is defined as: "Belief in something one cannot prove." Faith however, is proof that what one cannot see does in fact exist or will come to pass. Your example cannot work. It is to general and divorced from the problem. Thinking you will pull through, because you have faith in God, is really just belief or mental assent. Even the devil believes!
Faith is what gets God to act. In the case you give, one must seek God to act to a specific need. One does not 'believe' in God to get over it! That is a good way to die with an illness, while not seeking medical attention. One needs faith in God to remove the disease Now! If you have faith, it will happen. And with proof, who needs logic?
Faith is seeing what you ask done. If you don't see it done, you should at least see its beginning. Faith is also a feeling* or intuition that what you ask will come to pass and being able to order your life accordingly.
Belief is head work, faith is heart work.
*By feeling I mean a sense
2007-05-31 08:10:31 · answer #2 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it does make sense. For in "98", my little girl was sick. She was transferred to one of the best hospitals. They ran ever test known to man and couldn't find what was wrong with her. They told us if we had any faith in the Lord, now is the time to be praying. For they said that don't know what is happening to her and would be surprised if she even pulled through. Three days later she woke up and said she sat on Jesus lap. The doctors came in and was shock. She woke up and showed no signs of ever being a sick , lifeless little girl. Well you might think it was the teaching she was raised with...LOL ... not by far, I didn't believe at the time or should I say I didn't understand it. But I did pray and the Lord showed me he is there.
2007-05-31 06:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by married_johnandjess4ever 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ultimately, a good Christian doesn't put faith in haing God "pull them through so they can live longer". A good Christian has faith that God will do the right thing to fulfill GOD's will , whether it be for someone to live longer here on Earth or for God to take thm into His Kingdom.
We are only sad about people dying because we miss them personally. We should not be sad FOR THEM when they die because they are going on to God's kingdom.
Having faith in God means trusting God to guide us in what is right...not asking God to do what WE think is right.
2007-05-31 06:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by tabulator32 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it's based on the Bible, the Word of God, that's all you need. If you already have the proof and facts, then faith is not needed. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Don't you watch Kenneth Copeland?
2007-05-31 06:49:07 · answer #5 · answered by The Rock & Roll Doctor 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Faith in God
2007-05-31 07:08:30 · answer #6 · answered by Mario 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As my beloved Pastor stated: "The doctors use the science and technology given to them by God to try to figure out what He already knows"!
Sometimes logic has to be looked at as it really is..."mans way of making sense of things". Look at this world... Does it look like mans logic is working?
2007-05-31 06:51:14 · answer #7 · answered by Stranger In My Heart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes faith believes when it is completely illogical to do so. But faith is justified when the doctor can do nothing, and the patient lives anyway. It's happened to me and my family.
2007-05-31 06:58:44 · answer #8 · answered by singwritelaugh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith in God can produce results contrary to the doctor's..
2007-05-31 06:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by Redeemed 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first scenario is based on logic, the second isn't.
2007-05-31 07:09:59 · answer #10 · answered by Liesel 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
faith is all well and good, up to the point that you die of a cruel and unpleasant disease, you have faith, you have been a good christian (or whatever), but still you die!
2007-05-31 07:29:26 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋