If you are not a Christian and have no faith, where do you get faith for the day, knowing you won't just die?

Question

When you sit on a chair, how do you know it won't suddenly break? Or when you drive on a 2-lane, that the other car won't collide head on with you? Faith. Man has always claimed empy truths. Why trust what someone else just makes up? If we were created, then reasonably, there must be a creator. Won't you want to trust in a truth that is independant of what any man thinks? Three blind men touch different parts of an elephant, one thinks the leg is a tree, one thinks its back is a rock, and one thinks its trunk is a snake. They argue as man's nature. What they really need is someone who can see to REVEAL the truth to them. That someone couldn't be man for HOW can the blind lead the blind? God, the father of Christ, is the only being from OUTSIDE this BLIND world who has told man that there is truth, that He is the only Truth. Pagan religions, atheists, agnostics, don't affirm this truth at all b/c blind men made them. TRUST He who sees.
Re-read all of this before commenting. God bless!

Answer 1

Not faith. Trust based in evidence on the integrity of the chair, or a trust that on-coming traffic wishes to stay out of an accident as much as I do.

Your question is pointless platitudes that I have heard a hundred times before.

Answer 2

Do you have these problems? Do chairs just magically break when you sit on them? Do you frequently experience head-on collisions? Or, are these nothing more than highly improbable events that you are using to make a point that is already moot?

Given the quality of construction, I find it highly improbable that any of my chairs will break when I use them. And, while there are a lot of truly awful drivers out there, it is highly unlikely that any of the people reading your rather tiresome question will experience a head-on collision.

You say,"Man has always claimed empy truths." You mean "empty truths" like the science that created the computer you used to post your question? You mean "empty truths" like the medicine that has eliminated polio and smallpox around the world? Do you even mean the "empty truths" that tell us the earth orbits the sun? Think of all the technology that you use every day and then if you think it's all so empty and false, why are you still using it? Some might call that little truth, HYPOCRISY.

There is no credible evidence to support the archaic notion of a cosmic hobgoblin, such as god, nor is one needed to sufficiently explain either how the universe came to be or how life on this planet began and evolved. When are you going to get your head out of the sand of all your Stone Age notions?

Also, how narrow minded and bigoted that you want to blame blind men for all the knowledge and progress that you in the luxury of your own first world existence dismiss as superficial and false. Do you even know any blind people? Or, is it possible that this prejudice is just another example of the irrational beliefs and primitive superstitions that you embrace with such blind, ignorant zeal?

When are you going to get up off your knees and start thinking for yourself like a human being instead of slavishly submitting like a well-trained dog to ridiculously outmoded and primitive dogmas and superstitions?

Answer 3

You are using two different meanings for the term "faith", and pretending they are the same thing. This is not only fallacious, but dishonest. Isn't your imaginary god supposed to have a problem with lying?

The "faith" that things generally don't fall apart without warning, or the "faith" that most people will obey basic common sense and traffic safety, are based on evidence in the real world. "Confidence" would be a better word to use. This has nothing to do with faith in an invisible deity supported by no evidence whatsoever.

There exists no evidence we were "created", so there is no need for a "Creator".

The blind-men-and-elephant parable is irrelevant, put there only so you have an excuse to insult anyone who doesn't share your beliefs as "blind." Doesn't your imaginary god have some problem with bearing false witness against your neighbor?

Your "truth" is nothing of the kind, and is not "independent of what any man thinks". It's derived from a collection of dogmas created, passed down, interpreted, and hopelessly mangled my MEN over centuries.

And there is no reason to trust YOU as "he who sees", because you started this whole thing off with dishonesty.

Answer 4

"I do that based on reason, and expectation, and past experience ... The kind of faith that I have, is faith based upon EVIDENCE. I have faith in my friends, I have faith in the chair that I'm sitting on. I've been sitting on this for many years now. It hasn't collapse yet. When it does collapse, my faith will be broken in this chair, and I'll either get a new chair, or I'll fix it."
- James Randi, transcribed by hand from a radio interview

You use the old analogy of the three blind men and the elephant, which oddly enough comes from Hinduism. Ever think that "God, the father of Christ" is also just one part of that "elephant" (if any part at all) and you're still missing the big picture?

Answer 5

What's using believing in Christ if you do not comply with any of His teachings? Faith like that's empty and hole, a trifling exhibit and lip-carrier. Believing Christ to be the one Son of God or being Allah's messenger are 2 completely one of a kind matters, now not attached whatsoever in any respect. There are too many variations among Christianity and Islam to bridge the hole with a couple of coincidences.

Answer 6

I dont have faith in myself,but I know that most of my loved ones have faith in me and that gets me through the day. If I do die suddenly ex.lightning,car wreck. I know that I have made the most of my life,sure I have regrets,but dont we all. I don't fear death, not because im religious or anything of the sort, its just that I know i have made the world a bit better and had enjoyable moments for my loved ones to remember me by. that is faith my friend, not in some blind religion, but seeing people with their arms outreached towards you alone and knowing you are not alone in the rocky paths you travel. that is where I get my faith, that is why I have not decided to kill myself, that is why I keep breathing, that is how I stand before you today, telling you this, because I may not have faith in myself, but I have faith that my loved ones will be there when no one else is.

Answer 7

The wise man seeks all things from within himself. I do not know if the chair will break, until I sit in it. If it breaks, then it is so. So I need no faith to carry through the day of chairs and elephants, Only a trust in myself that I will do what is right in each challenge that day presents.

Answer 8

Who says I know any of those things? It's entirely possible that a car will cross that center line and nail me. I remember vividly the day that happened to my great-aunt. I don't have "faith" that it won't happen, I just know that the odds are exceedingly slim. If that's how you define faith, then go ahead and redefine it into meaninglessness.

"Won't you want to trust in a truth that is independant [sic] of what any man thinks?" Please note that you're telling me this because you want me to believe in your idea of the truth. That is not independent of what any man thinks, it's dependent on what you think. (Which, btw, is "what someone else makes up."

Capital letters don't make you any more right.

God hasn't told me a thing, nor could he. I don't hear voices of beings that aren't there.

Answer 9

the above example tell me that to sit on the chair and broke, the chances of getting it is near to zero. same to the car accident. This is not faith.

you are one of the blind man that cry out loud that the elephant look like a truck and think it is the truth.

Answer 10

I am beginning to think that I am not a Christian. I believe in
God. I can accept Jesus as the son of God. But this gets harder and harder for me to accept. Because I just don't believe in the New Testament. If I had been born anywhere but in the united states I would be born in/of a different religion. It doesn't help to re-read what you have written for you haven't really thought this through.