A question about faith?

Question

Is faith a noun, verb, or adjective?.Is faith a feeling and emotion or is it something tangable?
Don't worry I am going somewhere with this..I just need to set up my next question by the majority of the answers I get from this one.

Answer 1

Faith is a noun or, rarely, an adjective. How can it be a verb?

"I faithed three times today." Doesn't make sense.

Faith as a feeling is possible, but it's a very under-developed, immature stage of belief. Plus, it really gets believers into trouble when they identify faith with that concomitant feeling: when the feelings wanes, they panic and assume their faith is waning too.

Mature faith is a decision, a willed act of the intellect. Not a feeling.

Answer 2

Faith is a noun,verb and adjective.
I like the following definitions.
Heb 11:1 (KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Believing is not exactly the same as faith. For belief to be faith, it must light on what is certainly true.

Rom 10:17 (NIV) Faith comes by hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

Belief detached from the truth is not faith. Believing in what is not from God, not true, believing in "the word of your own imagination", or even the "word of Satan", is deception pure and simple. Calling this deception "faith" does not make it so.

C.S. Lewis: "The battle is between faith and reason on one side and emotions and imagination on the other.... Supposing a man's reason once decides that weight of evidence is for Christianity. I can tell that man what is going to happen to him in the next few weeks. There will come a moment when there is bad news, or he is in trouble, or is living among a lot of other people who do not believe it, and all at once his emotions will rise up and carry out a sort of blitz on his belief. Or else there will come a moment when he wants a woman, or wants to tell a lie, or feels very pleased with himself, or sees a chance of making a little money in some way that is not perfectly fair: some moment, in fact, at which it would be very convenient if Christianity were not true.

Answer 3

Faith is a noun. It is a belief in the unseen or unknowable (if you saw the unseen or know of the unknowable, then faith would not exist). It is not an emotion like fear or love, nor is it tangible like a physical object. Faith is more or less a choice.

I am sure you are hoping that people will say that faith is an emotion. So then you can say that faith is related to chemicals in the body like love and fear are related to endorphins and adrenaline. Hope I didnt burst your bubble :)

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

EDIT: Faith is a NOUN people! Not a verb or an adjective. You can love someone but you cant faith someone. You can be a faithful person, but faithful is the adjective, not faith. Check out http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faith

Answer 4

First find out what has this faith whether it is the body or something else. the whole experience of person perceiving the world is in form of feeling, which they call it as consciousness.
If there is no feeling the whole experience of person perceiving the world disappears. therefore the body and world your faith, and whatever is seen and known as a person is in the form of feeling. The feeler or experiencer of the whole human experience including the world is invisible spirit or Atman.
It requires deeper investigation to understand the true fact of your own existence. the faith is present only when you view the world view on the physical point of view.
There is neither faith nor belief nor you as a person nor the experience of the world exist when discover and realize the true fact that 'I' is not SELF,but the substance of the 'I' is SELF. The substance is the formless non dual spirit or Atman.

Answer 5

I cannot think of faith being used as a verb. Definitely a noun. But, if a person is faithful, then it is an adjective.

Answer 6

Hidy,
Faith can be a noun or and adjective. It is an important part of our religious belief as Christians. Faith can not be a verb even though it is an action it can not be an action in and of itself. Have a wonderful week. I look forward to the question that you are going to post and hope to see it soon. Please send it to me if you will.
Thank You,
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Answer 7

Faith is all of those things and more. It can be tangible; look at Martin Luther King and Mohatma Ghandi. each had faith that things could be changed and change things they did.
Webster's classifies faith as a noun, faitful as an adjective.

Answer 8

--IT WOULD SEEM to act as verb in that action is required in true faith, in our minds & heart as it is presented as a motivator, please note:

(Hebrews 11:1) 11 "Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld."

--IN BLIND FAITH there is no action of reason , logic, connective thought, thus you have unreasonable doctrines that have no impetus at all from the Bibles truths!

--THE BIBLES FAITH can be compared to the true sciences and faith in principles and laws that have been established!
---FOR EXAMPLE when Pluto was discovered , it indeed was not by sight but by the affect its orbit had on the solar system and the orbits of the other planets!
-----THUS THE above definition of faith was practiced by the scientists in determining it existed!
---------"Faith is the ASSURED expectation of things hoped for, the EVIDENT demonstration of REALITIES though not beheld."

--THE PRACTICE OF FAITH that the Bible supports is truthful testimony of people in history who had either first hand dealings with God or could reason on the acts of history God indeed performed!

--TO DENY biographers of God such as Moses, Daniel, David, Luke, John , Paul as set out in the Bible would be similar to denying modern day historians who have researched history of Lincoln, George Washington, Napoleon, Alexander the Great etc.

Answer 9

*** rs p. 129 Faith ***

Faith

Definition: “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Heb. 11:1) True faith is not credulity, that is, a readiness to believe something without sound evidence or just because a person wants it to be so. Genuine faith requires basic or fundamental knowledge, acquaintance with evidence, as well as heartfelt appreciation of what that evidence indicates. Thus, although it is impossible to have real faith without accurate knowledge, the Bible says that it is “with the heart” that one exercises faith.—Rom. 10:10

Answer 10

It's all 3. Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not seen.

But it can exist apart from emotions or feelings. It requires action (prayer, words, believing) so I'd say it's closest to being a verb.