2007-07-13 10:31:31 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dictionary.com says:
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.
3. belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims.
4. belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty.
5. a system of religious belief: the Christian faith; the Jewish faith.
6. the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.: Failure to appear would be breaking faith.
7. the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.: He was the only one who proved his faith during our recent troubles.
8. Christian Theology. the trust in God and in His promises as made through Christ and the Scriptures by which humans are justified or saved.
—Idiom
9. in faith, in truth; indeed: In faith, he is a fine lad.
My "spiritual faith" - which is what I suppose you asking about - based on where you posted your quesiton - is that I believe that everything is as it should be all the time - and God is Love. KNOWING that - gets me through all of the human "muck".
Namaste!
2007-07-13 10:37:18 · answer #1 · answered by liddabet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith is belief in something that in yet unproven.
Real faith, like trust, comes from other experience with info from the same source. For instance you may believe something unverified from a BF/GF if you've know them a long time and they've never lied to you.
Fake faith comes from believe what you are told by an authority without ever testing anything.
2007-07-13 10:37:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Trusting commitment of one person to another, particularly of a person to God. Faith is the central concept of Christianity. One may be called a Christian only if one has faith. "Faith" came to mean "loyalty to a person to whom one is bound by promise or duty." Faith was fidelity. Belief came to be distinguished from faith as an intellectual process having to do with the acceptance of a proposition. Faith is trust or confidence in God. We walk by faith, not by sight, because there is a lot unseen.
Greek noun "pistis" (faith) is related to the verb " pisteuo" (I have faith, trust, believe). Faith is also called a fruit of the Holy Spirit. Christianity itself may be called "the faith."
2007-07-13 10:47:46 · answer #3 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith comes from hearing the word of the Lord, yo...
2007-07-13 10:39:30 · answer #4 · answered by jamestheprophet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith comes from the fact we are predators and all predators are skittish. When we don't understand something we assume there is a larger predator that is above us who put it there or uses it.
We put faith in the fact that all predators have another predator who preys on them. While this is untrue since we are the apex predators we can be taken out by lesser predators like a rattlesnake.
2007-07-13 10:37:07 · answer #5 · answered by meissen97 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-09 06:08:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romans 10:17 "So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
2007-07-13 10:36:18 · answer #7 · answered by Romans1:16!! 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2007-07-13 10:48:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple and short answer is faith equals trust.
Hope that helps!
2007-07-13 10:39:06 · answer #9 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Faith = the inability to deal with the thought of death on a rational level
2007-07-13 10:38:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋