please elaborate.
2007-08-05 09:09:28 · 15 answers · asked by cherry_bananas_cookies 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Faith and hope are actually quite similar, but there is a difference.
Faith is the belief in something beyond what your human senses can perceive, with little or no substantial tangible evidence. For example, my mother is about a 5 hour plane ride away, yet somehow I have faith that she is alive and well, even though I have no way of knowing this for sure, unless of course I call her up right now. Another example; I have faith that I will wake up tomorrow. I believe I am a fairly healthy individual, but there's still no guarantee that I will even survive until bedtime tonight. I just have faith.
Hope involves a little less certainty, making it more whimsical and almost more magical when it is realized. I hope to be a published author someday, just like I hope to have a family with at least two children. There is enough time between now and when these hopes can be actualized that there is a higher level of doubt, not that I doubt myself, no, I am only aware that a lot needs to happen before I am published or before I have a family.
2007-08-05 09:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by Dan in Real Life 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith is believing and knowing that the impossible can happen. Hope is a desire that it will happen.
Kierkegaard wrote about that in "Fear and Trembling," using the story of Abraham going out to sacrifice Isaac. He had faith that God would somehow not let his son die, even though God ordered that he was to kill his son. Everyone thought Abraham was crazy, but he had faith that two opposite things could happen at the same time. He would kill his son but Isaac would still live. That's faith. Of course, the ram showed up and Abraham killed that instead.
Hope, on the other hand, is wanting something to happen, but there is still a kernel of doubt that it will. Faith has no doubt. Faith doesn't look at all the various tangents and how they will play out. It just knows that even though the desired outcome may not be realistic, it will happen.
2007-08-05 09:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by a3strangequarks 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith is a belief in something without proof. Faith in God. To hope is to desire with expectation of fulfillment. I hope to see you tomorrow. I hope that you the faith to see the difference.
2007-08-05 11:27:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hope is a desire for something. I hope that my Creator exists because I want to know Him. Wishful thinking is hope against all reason. A reasonable hope is a rational hope.
Belief is the intellectual construction that says that if you want to know your Creator, then you must hold as true (believe) that your Creator exists. To believe is to "hold as true", taking the position that it is true until proven false. The burden of proof is to prove it false.
Faith is acting on your belief. Many people "believe" in God but do nothing about it.
2007-08-05 11:40:44 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the substance of things hoped for
hope is only wanting
2007-08-05 10:28:11 · answer #5 · answered by julia j 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Faith and Hope walk hand in hand, you can't have one without the other, If you have faith you have hope, If you have hope, you evidently have faith and remain hopeful, "Keep the
Faith." all else will follow. Blessings
2007-08-05 09:33:21 · answer #6 · answered by jenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would like to clarify that FAITH is NOT "knowing", faith is trusting that something is correct or that something exists without having any real evidence to support....if the evidence existed there would be no need for faith....for example, many members of religions say they have faith in their deity, they are merely stating that they TRUST he/she exists, they are not saying they KNOW God exists (its quite amusing, by definition God transcends all natural/logical laws (basically he is beyond the universe) therefore to a theists demise he/she can never say that they KNOW god exists, they can only have faith in Gods existence)
2007-08-05 19:13:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
faith is believing constantly in something ie a divine entity
hope is wishing for something better in the future than what you have in your current circumstances.
hope that helped
to be happy you need both
2007-08-05 09:17:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are both emotions.
Faith is the feeling of certainty without proof.
Hope is the feeling that what we wish will be granted. Every request in a prayer contains the feeling of hope.
2007-08-05 09:47:25 · answer #9 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
faith = believing
hope = wishing
2007-08-06 22:44:35 · answer #10 · answered by muru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋