2007-06-03 06:37:55 · 27 answers · asked by reverendrichie 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When lots of people participate in the same wishful thinking, it becomes faith.
2007-06-03 06:47:33 · answer #1 · answered by skeptic 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wishful thinking is: "hope so, please, please, please..., maybe.., lets all meditate on the same thing!!
Faith is: Evidence inside yourself even before it appears in the natural world, simply because GOD'S WORD SAYS SO AND GOD CAN'T LIE SO IT'S A SURE THING!!
Faith is defined in Hebrews 11: 1, and it comes automatically according to Romans 10: 17. You don't have to TRY and have faith, it comes by hearing and hearing God's words. Read the Bible aloud and faith comes; it has the power to bring faith for whatever you are needing from God. Find the scripture verses or chapters or stories that promise you what you are praying for and faith for it comes.
You have to believe you HAVE received it BEFORE it manifests. You don't wait to SEE it to believe have it.
Like when you were a kid and Dad or Mom told you "we will go to the circus Saturday". You accepted it as fact! The circus was a sure thing. Same with God..., if he promised it, you can count on it and tell others BEFORE you actually possess it and that is using FAITH!!! The healing, the money you need, the whatever is a sure thing!
No hoping, no wishful thinking.
2007-06-03 13:57:50 · answer #2 · answered by gg28 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me, faith is something that I believe despite myself. As you may have gathered through several of my other answers I tend to be rather hard-nosed and logical. I acknowledge that my faith cannot be rational if explained to another. It is based purely on personal experience.
Wishful thinking in my case would therefore be more likely to deny faith. But that cannot be.
However, there is a lot of evidence that people deny rationality and scientific evidence, citing faith as the reason. Surely this is completely wrong. For example, to cling to The Book of Genesis (or any other religious text) as a rational explanation for the creation of the world is a firm case of wishful thinking. I know for a fact that certain religious organisations purposefully twist scientific evidence in order to fit it into its own doctrine. This is beyond wishful thinking and more akin to fraud.
So to finalise, there can be faith if it is sincerely held and acknowledged to be apparently unreasonable. If it is based on blindly following falsehood, then that faith must surely be shaken when the truth is finally revealed.
2007-06-03 17:37:04 · answer #3 · answered by 13caesars 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is both:
+ A gift of God
+ A human act
In faith, the believer:
+ Gives personal adherence to God
+ Freely assents to the truth that God has revealed
It is this revelation of God which we
+ Profess in the Creed
+ Celebrate in the sacraments
+ Live by right conduct
+ Respond in our prayer of faith
Faith is both
+ A theological virtue given by God as grace
+ An obligation which flows from the first commandment of God
The first commandment requires us to nourish and protect our faith with prudence and vigilance, and to reject everything that is opposed to it.
Wishful thinking is more like hope.
With love in Christ.
2007-06-03 13:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the primary motivation for action in all intelligent beings. For example, when you turn on a light switch, you don't know the light will come on because you don't have personal knowledge that all the mechanisms involved are in perfect working order. If we didn't act until we had such knowledge, all action would stop.
Wishful thinking doesn't imply action. It generally means to wish something is true that isn't.
2007-06-03 13:45:29 · answer #5 · answered by Bryan Kingsford 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the acceptance of all "Trials or Blessings" grounded in a deeper meaning of life. While wishful thinking is a single hope of wanting that is open to disappointments =)
2007-06-11 09:01:35 · answer #6 · answered by DzyDvy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We believe or, actually, know that what we have prayed for will happen. We have faith because we know God and we believe His Word.
Wishful thinking has no basis. We just want it to happen and we have no idea what actually will happen.
2007-06-11 09:40:08 · answer #7 · answered by fanofchan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me, faith is very important, as it should be, to Christians. The Bible says "Without faith, it is impossible to please God." The term 'wishful thinking' isn't consistent with the Christian faith. We should pray for what we want, not indulge in 'wishful thinking.' I've heard there's three ways God answers, "Yes, no or not now." Simple as that...
2007-06-11 12:31:44 · answer #8 · answered by Judith H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wishful thinking has doubts. Faith doesn't.
2007-06-11 12:25:45 · answer #9 · answered by Frootbat31 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is something you believe in but wishful thinking is something you wish could happen and it can be spiritual and not spiritual.
2007-06-10 23:50:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋