Is faith "believing without seeing" a bunch of crap?

Question

They see statues of Jesus and his mom. They see paintings all over the place. They see priests and preachers that are elevated on a platform. They hear stories from the day they were born about angels and devils and demons and spirits. The entire religion or religions are created in the greatest art in the world. A fantasy is delivered on a silver platter to them constantly. Then they have the stupidity to say they have faith and believe without seeing. Christians do not know the difference in a picture and reality or even come close to believing without seeing. When will this religious stupidity end?

Answer 1

Why does it bother you so much, Tom? I'm not bothered by your beliefs.

Answer 2

The trinity is not a bible teaching. It is a doctrine of pagan origin and not taught by Jesus Christ nor the apostles directly taught by him. Nearly each group or individual has a slightly different way of explaining it. It is difficult to maintain consistency in explaining a false concept. The doctrine teaches that there is one God, consisting of 3 persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All are coequal and co-eternal. The Holy Scriptures themselves debunk this myth. However, trinitarians are adamant about the belief. You can tell that on Y/A. But at least these days they don't murder you by burning you alive, and other sundry tortures, if you oppose the doctrine. Since many trinitarians also believe in a burning hell of torment for sinners, historically many have felt they could behave like their triune god, who has no qualms about roasting people. Most civilizations follow the lead of their gods and goddesses. Like all myths and legends, the trinity has no support in the bible. The history of the development of the trinity is interesting in how true scriptural concepts were taken and made to "fit" a pagan doctrine. If you research the trinity, you will have to use outside sources, because if you use the bible alone, you won't find it.

Answer 3

What a silly little question. Have you ever SEEN evolution? Did you physically SEE animals evolve? Did you physically SEE the Holocaust? Did you physically SEE the Vietnam War? Everything you learn in school is just passed down to you from teachers. Everything you have ever been taught has been you "taking the word of" someone else thought to be more educated than you, telling you what is "right" and "wrong". You are no better off than the people you condemn, believing those silly pictures in history books and science books and writings done by gray-haired men in ivory towers who died centuries ago. I utterly loathe when atheists take the high road in regards to what religious people believe, because the majority of atheists I have encountered were utter buffoons, heads full of regurgitated anti-religious garbage they'd heard on vampire message boards and gothic chat rooms.
News flash, kid: 1) There are MANY MANY Christians out there. 2) It is unreasonable to somehow think that you are smarter and therefore entitled to talk down to Christian thinkers such as C.S. Lewis, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Isaac Newton, etc etc. The list goes on.
Yet somehow you think you have stumbled upon a brilliant discovery in the psychology of all Christians everywhere that somehow ties . . . pictures and reality together to show that they're "full of crap?" Get over yourself, kid.

Answer 4

im not a believer in much anything either but to each his own, some people need something to believe in to get through the day. Then there are those who by there family or friends are pushed towards a religion and just believe b/c thats what they have been taught and they just continue to go with it...that cycle just goes on, until someone thinks for them self.

Answer 5

Faith is believing without PROOF.

What you're describing is representations of proof (not proof itself) or anecdotes (also, not proof. Not scientifically, anyway.)

As I've said more times than I care to count, if there's no proof that God exists (that is, verifiable, repeatable proof that anybody could come up with if they did an experiment under similar circumstances), it's logically impossible to say God exists or not.

Therefore, one can choose to believe or not.

If one had proof, one would KNOW God exists. That's not belief. That's something entirely different.

But no proof does not mean the absence of God. The absence of proof of absence does not mean the presence of God.

No proof either way...it's outside the bounds of logic.

Sorry, but neither side "wins" in a logical argument, just based on the way science and logic works.

And who's to say that books about atheism and evolution and stuff aren't ways to disprove religion? Religion has had a pretty good run, but you have to admit, there's a lot of pro-atheism stuff out there. Especially on YA. How do you know you're not just influenced by that stuff rather than coming up with your own ideas?

Answer 6

If you have set any Dr. Appointments, or made any plans, you are engaging in stupidity. There is no proof that you will live to the date that you made. You believe that you will be alive to fulfill the engagement. Also, you believe that air exist even though you don't see it. You start gasping, you will ask for something that you can not see. So, you engage in stupity too. It is not only Christians. (smile)

Answer 7

See, here's the catch. We CAN see and believe at the same time. We can believe there is a God, because we see all he has created... meaning the earth and life as we know it. I believe in God because I see can my friends. Without God and his infinite kindness, they wouldn't be alive. Sure you can believe in evolution and the making of the earth scientifically. But what created all that to happen? If you can answer that question, tell me what created those things that created the earth and evolution. If you can answer that, tell me what created THOSE things. And what created THAT?... And what created THAT?... And so on and so forth. Eventually, you will come across a wall which prevents you from knowing an answer to those questions. That wall is God. Without God, nothing else can be fully explained.
I can see and believe, I don't know why others think they can believe and not see. Are they constantly wearing a blindfold? Were they born blind?

Answer 8

Ask a blind man.

I liked your question until I saw the comments. This is the philosophy section not the rant and rave section. I'm not even sure what you are so angry about.

Logic and faith are different things and can coexist peacefully without ever coming into conflict. That is as long as we don't try to use logic to explain faith and we don't use faith as a logical argument.

Answer 9

Prior to the 4th century when Augustine joined Plato to Christianity, and before the 6th century, when reason was joined to faith by Boethius who admired Augustine, Christians' ONLY religion was that of pure faith in miracles. They believed they did see them, and their faith was that they would see them, if not on this earth then in heaven. Yes, faith is "believing without seeing," but considering where Christians' roots lie, in unconditional faith, it's not surprising some people think Christians are full of crap.

Answer 10

"At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it's not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away."

Answer 11

I am sorry to disappoint you but those who have faith in one or another of the various religious denominations vastly out number those who do not. Since you obviously lack that kind of faith try not to worry about other peoples beliefs and get on with your own life without interfering with theirs.