Can faith ever be anything but blind?

Question

After all, faith by definition is - belief without reason or proof.

Can it ever be anything but blind?

Answer 1

Well, there is reasonable "faith", and then there's "blind" faith. Religion is based on blind faith, meaning that they don't need evidence, and they don't need any sort of history of success with something to have faith in that something.
Normal faith is a reasonable expectation that something will occur because it has in the past. (Your key will open your lock, your car will start, your spouse will be faithful, etc)

Answer 2

Faith is not blind but it is the unseen...faith is what you believe in your heart..faith is much more than blind..faith is a complete trust, which in any aspect is never blind...it is true that the definition of faith states "belief without reason or proof" However, it is what you know in your heart and that should be proof enough for whom believes and trusts what their heart holds...therefore faith can never be blind unless it was never faith to begin with...

Answer 3

I think there are two kinds of faith and one kind is based on experience. I have every faith that my car will get me from A to B tomorrow without breaking down or that my children will grow up into decent, responsible adults. It's possible I am proved wrong but it's a reasonable assumption based on my knowledge of my car and of my children.

The other kind of faith, such as faith in religion, is blind faith because there is nothing solid to base it on. For every story about how God answered prayers, or kept someone safe or helped someone pull through there are a million more stories of how God didn't come up with the goods.

Answer 4

Well,the biblical definition of faith is: "The substance of things hoped for,the evidence of things not seen". The word hope in biblical context is defined as "confident expectation". Though faith does not draw strength from the five senses and in this sense,could be considered to be blind,"blind faith", is faith without evidence, which would be superstition. For the Christian, faith comes by the Word of God and though is spiritually discerned,has substance.

Good question!!

Answer 5

Absolutely. Let's say there are two people, one I know extremely well and one I have never met. They both tell me they will meet me at the park at 3pm. To have faith in the one I know to show up or call me to say he cannot make it is very different than to have faith that the other guy whom I have never met will show up. For one, I have reason to have faith (even before the evidence of him being there is before me and visible to see), the other I do not. I wouldn't call the former blind faith, would you?

Answer 6

Religious faith tends to be, but that's not the only use of the term. I have faith in my intelligence, I have faith in my friend's loyalty, things like that. Hopefully, these sorts are based on convincing evidence.

Of course, there's no fundamental (pun intended) reason why religious faith can't be based on convincing evidence, but it seldom is. Mostly you have some ancient book or the testimony of others who found something in it that you may or may not find. Too often you can't even have faith in their honesty.

Answer 7

The Greek word behind "faith" in the New Testament is 'pistis'. As a noun, 'pistis' is a word that was used as a technical rhetorical term for forensic proof. Examples of this usage are found in the works of Aristotle and Quintiallian

Answer 8

If faith in God is blind, then faith in evolutionary science is deaf, dumb & blind!

I can't count all the things I have seen and experienced that aren't explainable by science or medicine. My faith in Jesus Christ isn't blind by any means!

However, where is the proof of the Big Bang? It couldn't have happened, even by scientific standards. Yet, those that don't believe in God blindly believe it. Anyone seen the missing link lately? It's never been found. Neither have the trillions of human skeletons that should have been found if mankind had existed for several million years.

Answer 9

Faith is not blind. Rom. 10-17 So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Heb. 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast(fixed), and which entereth into that within the veil.

Answer 10

Not necessary.
I have faith that my parents are my biological parents and I don't need to make a DNA test. The difference with the religious faith is that I can make a scientific prove to verify my assumption. I trust and love my parents. That's all I need.