christians...................?

Question

do you think that it is important to have faith in things other than god?

or is faith (acceptance of that which has no evidence), reserved solely for your belief in god?


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isn't faith needed instead of evidence. since you cannot prove that god exists you use faith instead.

Answer 1

Do you believe in quarks?

There is no proof of their existence, but they are believed by learned physicists to exist.

Remember science?

Be well.

Answer 2

It isn't just the religious who use faith; it's just the religious who use faith to begin to believe in God. After we've made the first "leap of faith" we don't NEED more evidence; at least in the case of Christianity (don't know about other religions, as I've only ever been a skeptic, an atheist, agnostic, Wiccan, and Christian) because God proves Himself repeatedly.

But anyway, ALL people use faith ALL the time. Don't believe me? People have FAITH that while they're at work, their house won't burn down. People have FAITH that all their friends won't turn on them, or that their best friend won't turn out to be a murderer. People have FAITH that a nuclear bomb won't hit their city in the middle of the night. People have FAITH that they're going to wake up in the morning.

Faith is important. It helps us survive. And I don't know of anyone who relies on faith when it lets them down. God has never let me down, even when I didn't believe in Him.

Answer 3

for some reason, i have faith in the fact that my mom and I will one day get along better. It's probably just an illusion anyway, but i keep believing it

Answer 4

Faith is not that which has no evidence; its that which is hoped for. If you see it, why would you hope for it?