Is there a correlation between faith and delusion?

Answer 1

to believe in God is faith. to believe in the church is delusion

Answer 2

No, John, there is no correlation between true faith and delusion. This I can prove to you. A person who truly lives by the teachings of Christ will do all things correctly and for a true purpose. We call this the true Tau. A person who does things in a deluded manner will use the catbox theory and cheat. The catbox theory is basically cheating the Tau and trying to get everything to fall into a segment that they devise for themselves. If they do this in business the mathematics of it are provable. Therefore, if you took two projects, one devised by a good steward and one devised by a cheater, you could easily compute the mathematics of each. The Bible says "who is it that tries to build a tower and does not first compute the cost?" So if we take each tower project and we test the correlation using the two sets of data we will see that the person using the tenets of faith versus the person using their own delusion, will arrive at two different matrics, and there will be no correlation between the two sets of data. Now the reason that I use this example, is because the tenets of Faith give us the absolute reference points upon which we build everything in our life: our families, our homes, our churches, our businesses, and our government. At the same time George Washington and the other founders of our nation were building America according to tenets of faith, the cheaters of the French Revolution including Robespierre,(Maximilien, 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) concluded a catastrophe. These cheaters were following a delusion. Faith is not blindness. Faith is a belief in the teachings of the apostles through Christ Jesus, whom we can not see, but can demonstrate the Truths which He has taught as being universal and acceptable throughout history as a reliable and thoroughly tested comprehensive path for human development.
You ask very good questions John. Followup your questions with study.

Attached is an example from history based on this type of analysis.

Answer 3

There is a bit of correlation, I think. This is not to say that people with faith are delirious... that would be callous of me. But in both cases, people believe so strongly in something that they think is real that it becomes the center of their lives. They become so hungry for this thing that they can't live without it in their minds. As a result, the mind narrows... vision is tunnneled. Faith, however has a history behind it. Delusion is more of a personal, rather than a group obsession.

Answer 4

People know the truth in regards to faith and delusion. It all comes down to how honest people want to be. If you seek truth you find faith If not delusion. No correlation.

Answer 5

I think that faith is delusional to those who just flat out don't understand it. R.Dawkins is a great example: Here's a man that does not understand faith because he simply doesn't have it, nor can come to terms with it. So he groups all religions by systematizing it as a whole to dilute the idea of a creator. And there is a book "Called the Dawkins Delusion."

Faith, even under attack from stupid man who think that they can discredit it, still stands firm.

Answer 6

Yes---once everyone in the world had faith that the Bible was true when it said the Earth was immovable & standing on pillars
1 Samuel 2:8 for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
Of course now we know that the faith was misplaced--we now know the Bible told a fib.So--yes---sometimes delusion & faith are bedfellows.

Answer 7

YES!

Faith = Delusion

Answer 8

Yes , the less faith you have the more delusional you are. The more faith you have the more delusional you are. Either way you are an extremist.

You have to have faith in something. Weather it be scientific theories , algorithms ,philosophy , god , etc. You have faith in something. It is when you don't have enough knowledge of that faith or read to much into that faith that you become an extremist.

It is when you misuse that faith that you are evil and a danger to all.

Answer 9

I think that I will eventually find a g/f, so I am holding out for the right one. (faith)

I know that I will get one because I am a hot looking guy. (delusion)

Make sense? A delusion is believing something which is not real, faith is holding on to hope that something is real.

Answer 10

Blind faith can be delusional as in the case of extremist Muslims that commit suicidal car bombings with the belief that they will be rewarded in heaven with 27 vestal virgins for their martyrdom. Some people say that a belief in God is delusional or wishful thinking. I am not one of them. For me, the belief in God is based on pure faith.

Often, delusional people, whatever their delusion is, base their belief not upon faith but as a defense mechanism to protect their fragile egos. They really believe the nonsense that they defend so staunchly. Otherwise, reality would smack them in the face and it would be too much for them to handle. It would put "their own constructed private world" into chaos. They are sad, mentally ill people.

Answer 11

No, there is a correlation between the knowledge of God and faith in Him.