Christians, what does NOT take faith?

Question

If it takes faith to sit in a chair, as I've heard proposed, is there anything that does not require faith?

Answer 1

Believing that your own thoughts exist.

Answer 2

henry ford was the author of one of my favorite quotes; ''whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right.'' this is a clear statement of the power of faith.

ALMOST every action requires faith. if you didn't have faith that you would recieve a paycheck at the end of the week, you wouldn't go to work. if you didn't have faith that your car would start, you'd never bother to put the key in the ignition. if you didn't have faith that your chair would withstand your own weight, you wouldn't sit in it.

involuntary reflexes would require no faith, though i'm sure faithless actions are not limited to this.

we all have an equal amount of faith, be it positive or negative (fear is faith working in the negative), but we also put that faith in different things. it can be based on personal experience, something a person heard, something a person read, something a person studied, and so on. christians simply have faith in the one Triune God and the power bestowed upon us by Him. that's where the distinction is made.

Answer 3

Crossing a one-way street?

As for the thing about taking faith to sit on a chair, I hate to disagree with you. It DOES!!!! I watched a 400lb woman sit on a chair once, and I gritted my teeth holding out in ever, hopeful, faith that the poor chair could withstand her massive weight.







It didn't.

It was funny as hell, though.



Poor chair.

Answer 4

It takes faith to sit in a chair? I have faith in my butt? No that dosent sound right. It takes your butt to sit in a chair. The only things that require faith are one's own hope and belief.

Answer 5

Yup. There are things that are proven through the scientific method, such as the existence of oxygen in the atmosphere.

There are also things that are matters of historical record, such as the existence of the Dodo.

There are those who say that we must have faith even in science and history, but I disagree. We believe in those things not because we have faith, but because we have experience. We trust the scientific method because it has proven over time to be an accurate system of quantifying our observations. We trust historical records because the sources of these records have proven to be accurate over time.

Answer 6

it takes faith to not believe in God, do you realize that. You are having faith that there is no hell and no God. It doens't take faith to read the Bible, but it does take faith to believe in anything, even if it's just that your wife loves you. So, everyone has faith in the unknown, even you.

Answer 7

Death requires no faith because it simply happens.
Pretty much any thought are limited minds reason
requires certain amounts of faith - we can't see
the whole universe or our own soul clearly!

Answer 8

Think about the man who made it; man is not perfect. One error can mess up the whole chain. See your problem is you have man before God. See with faith with God; he will protect you from falling out the chair if it breaks and you hurt yourself.

Answer 9

I don't know. Some level is required for almost everything that's part of a conscious action. Maybe everything.

You just can't know everything, with anything in particular. Does that make sense?

Answer 10

Anything that you can see or touch, does not require faith.

Answer 11

Meat Maori, I spent an entire semester in Contenental Rationalism class proving Descartes wrong on that point.