Is blind faith really faith?

Question

Is believing in some thing because a book or a person tells you to really faith? Wouldn't asking questions and exporing things bring on true faith because you have found your OWN answers?

I dunno if all faith is blind faith. If I followed blindly I would still be Christian. I explored my options asked questions and went with what felt right to me. I'm allright with not being to prove it and I am always open to new arguements or points of view. I mean people who just say they believe in whatever God because they do. They don't want to ask or answer questions. That would go against thier God or thier Bible. That just freaks me out.

Answer 1

Blind faith is really blind. You are right in saying that we need to discover and discern for ourselves and then come to our own conclusions. It doesn't hurt to listen to or read the opinions of others. The more you do so, the easier it is to separate the truth from the nonsense. And don't just read the books that you get from the Christian book store. Read philosophy, history, psychology and science. It takes time to build a mature and realistic worldview, but it's better than being a sheep.

Answer 2

Blind faith is required to live a life without killing yourself over things you can’t control.

Can you control if the Sun is or is not going to rise tomorrow? Well, blind faith let’s us go to sleep without staying up all night and saying good-bye to our loved ones.

Then we can take it to science … Did man really walk on the moon? ( I believe he did ) yet, I only have images, which could be faked. Some people have so little faith that they say it’s a “Government conspiracy that was filmed in Holly wood” … I don’t have the $$$ to experience walking on the moon myself, so, faith is here that if I did have the $$ that I could walk on the moon. Let’s take that leap of faith that I do get to go to the moon. Then I need blind faith that the scientists at NASA (or Russia) are intelligent enough to get me there safely. Is this really me going there, or am I just in a computer generated stimulated trip to the moon while never leaving Earth???

Blind faith is necessary.

Answer 3

If it has no evidence in favor of it, then yes, it is faith.

Skepticism is the best way to divide the real from the unreal. How are you going to figure out what exists if one doesn't test for it, or examine the evidence for that view? If you ask questions and can validate your points, then it is no longer faith, but good reasoning. In my perspective, the ability to understand something is more important than blind faith.

Answer 4

Faith is to belive the one who created you, all the mankind, the sky, the earth, all the animals, the sun and the moon. Th creator of every thing and the king of the Judment day.

I advise you to look for the real way. May you please read the Quran you will get every questions answered with a understandable and reasonable way, without blindly accepting what your told.

I again Invite you to read Quran the Message of Allah, the only God.

Allah telling us who he is says the following'
The Nature of Allah

1 Say: He is Allah the One and Only; 6296 6297
2 Allah the Eternal Absolute; 6298
3 He begetteth not nor is He begotten; 6299
4 And there is none like unto Him. 6300

6296 The nature of Allah is here indicated to us in a few words, such as we can understand. The qualities of Allah are described in numerous places elsewhere, e.g., in lix. 22-24, lxii. 1, and ii. 255. Here we are specially taught to avoid the pitfalls into which men and nations have fallen at various times in trying to understand Allah. The first thing we have to note is that His nature is so sublime, so far beyond our limited conceptions, that the best way in which we can realise Him is to feel that He is a Personality, "He", and not a mere abstract conception of philosophy. He is near us; He cares for us; we owe our existence to Him. Secondly, He is the One and Only God, the Only One to Whom worship is due; all other things or beings that we can think of are His creatures and in no way comparable to Him. Thirdly, He is Eternal, without beginning or end, Absolute, not limited by time or place or circumstance, the Reality. Fourthly, we must not think of Him as having a son or a father, for that would be to import animal qualities into our conception of Him. Fifthly, He is not like any other person or thing that we know or can imagine: His qualities and nature are unique. (112.1)

6297 This is to negative the idea of Polytheism, a system in which people believe in gods many and lords many. Such a system is opposed to our truest and profoundest conceptions of life. For Unity in Design, Unity in the fundamental facts of existence, proclaim the Unity of the Maker. (112.1)

6298 Samad is difficult to translate by one word. I have used two, "Eternal" and "Absolute". The latter implies: (1) that absolute existence can only be predicated of Him; all other existence is temporal or conditional; (2) that He is dependent on no person or things, but all persons or things are dependent on Him, thus negativing the idea of gods and goddesses who ate and drank, wrangled and plotted, depended on the gifts of worshippers, etc. (112.2)

6299 This is to negative the Christian idea of the godhead, "the Father", "the only-begotten Son" etc. (112.3)

6300 This sums up the whole argument and warns us specially against Anthropomorphism, the tendency to conceive of Allah after our own pattern, an insidious tendency that creeps in at all times and among all peoples. (112.4)

Answer 5

Well Jesus told us to have the faith of a little child..so could mean blind faith. I think it is faith because you're not relying on your own intellect, though of course people should explore their faith and learn more about it.
God bless

Answer 6

Faith is trust in that which you can't detect with your physical senses.

Part of what you do must rely on what others have said (Because God left his word so that we can know Him) but there is also the part of you own growth in faith that depends on your personal relationship with God.

Answer 7

Read the Holy Bible. In it you will find (in the gospels) eyewitness accounts of the life and sayings of Jesus.
Christianity is not blind faith.

Answer 8

Blind faith isn't what the Bible means by faith. "Blind faith" is a synonym for gullibility, and in the Bible it is clearly NOT a virtue!

Answer 9

Faith, by definition, is blind.

If you asked questions and explored things, that would be a process of gathering evidence to support your belief. At that point, you are either convinced or unconvinced by the evidence. Either way, it ceases to be faith.

Faith is just belief in something because you want to believe it to be true, without real evidence. It is "evidence of things hoped for", as the Bible puts it.

Answer 10

Great question. How can we have blind faith if all the religions disagree? We would not know what church was true. When I joined the Mormon Church I studied and I prayed to heavenly father. The Missionaries told me that it wasn't their job to give me faith, it was their job to teach me to have the faith to pray and know Heavenly Fathers answers to my prayers.

You can know this too.

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