Faith as an epistemological method of attaining knowledge...What's on the other end of the spectrum?
2007-09-13 08:12:25 · 30 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Skepticism or doubt. All we really have is faith or doubt. Nothing is certain. I tend to place my faith in things that are logically shown to have a high probability of being accurate, as far as we are able to discern.
2007-09-13 08:20:37 · answer #1 · answered by zero 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reason.
Faith is not an epistemological method of attaining knowledge.
2007-09-13 08:19:46 · answer #2 · answered by Chuck Biscuits 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
obviously skepticism - not believing anything unless its proven which is just as silly as blind belief.
However true faith is not belief in the existence of god, but trusting your life into god's hands. It is like the game where you put on a blindfold and stand in the middle of a circle of people and let yourself fall and the other people catch you.
You know that the people are there and you know that they will catch you, but how much can you let yourself fall? It is hard even though you know it will be ok. This is faith in the other people.
Faith in god is similar. When you know that god is there looking after you - can you let go and trust him to look after you? Or do you try to keep control of things yourself? how much you can let go is how much faith you have.
Belief is an entirely different matter, and not anywhere near as useful. If you believe something it means you haven't seen it for yourself. Better to go and look than to say that you believe. The true spiritualists experience god for themselves they do not just believe it.
2007-09-13 08:22:58 · answer #3 · answered by Eyebright 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hebrews 11:1 defines faith as " Faith, the assured expectaion of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld".
So the opposite of faith is fear.
2007-09-13 08:18:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Disbelief, mistrust, the need to validate everything against earthly human experience. The older I get the more I am willing to take things on faith as being unproveable or untestable. Some things just are because they are or because God spoke it so.
2007-09-13 08:18:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Empiricism
2007-09-13 08:15:26 · answer #6 · answered by wondermus 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Skepticism/doubtfulness.
2007-09-13 08:15:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Skepticism
2007-09-13 08:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Lack of faith.
2007-09-13 08:17:17 · answer #9 · answered by JayDee 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From a faithful point of view: doubt, confusion, uncertainty.
2007-09-13 08:16:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋