2007-06-22 11:11:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Experience.
2007-06-22 11:14:13 · answer #1 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
By altering your definition of evidence a little - you must also include feelings and change of mind and heart as 'evidence' and the resultant effects in your physical life, emotional interaction, experience of hope, forgiveness, etc. Faith requires trust. If a person proves himself over and over, you trust that person. Faith in God doesn't mean that God is a person who will never dissapoint you. I believe that faith in the CREATOR is merely an opening of our heart to what we are inside. Love.
2007-06-22 11:20:23 · answer #2 · answered by jaymccormick2006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Buddhism, there are several ways of knowing something and one of those ways is taking the words of someone who's reputable on "faith" to a degree ONLY until you've done analytical meditation and come to the same conclusion or not.
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2007-06-22 11:14:11 · answer #3 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
but atheist.....doesn't it also mean to have faith if you indeed believe in the knowledge you've found?
be·lieve /bɪˈliv/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[bi-leev] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, -lieved, -liev·ing.
–verb (used without object)
1. to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
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–noun
1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
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–noun
1.the fact or state of knowing; the perception of fact or truth
2007-06-22 11:16:38 · answer #4 · answered by Gir 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand your question. I am not really interested in faith in things that I can not touch, see, hear or taste. However, there are many real things, like the good in human nature, that I can have faith in because it obviously exists.
What are you referring to ?
2007-06-22 11:16:51 · answer #5 · answered by Alan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pay attention: atheists do not require faith to enrich our lives, devise a personal philosophy, or behave ethically toward others. Your question is either grossly misplaced, pathetically uninformed, or another (typical) attempt to bait responses that will bolster your already entrenched opinion that you have superior wisdom (rather than the humility Christianity demands of its adherents).
2007-06-22 11:22:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can't increase faith by evidence. If you have evidence then you don't have faith you have knowledge. Faith is for people with no evidence.
2007-06-22 11:14:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is not a religion. It takes no faith whatsoever to be an atheist.
2007-06-22 11:13:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Are you living life completely and experiencing all that there is to experience? You will find that your personal faith(or faith in yourself) will continue to grow.
Challenge yourself!
2007-06-22 11:18:33 · answer #9 · answered by Vintage Glamour 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking this as a Christian, or wrongly suggesting that Atheism is a religion ? Please explain things more clearly.
2007-06-22 11:14:24 · answer #10 · answered by ED SNOW 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋