Part two of my question about faith...?

Question

If you missed the first one, feel free to look it up on my asked qustions list!
Ok....for the most part it seems that people think faith can be all the things I mentioned and more..that it is a complex thing and not cut and dry. I did notice alot of people beleive you need to feel faith for it to be effective in your life.
Here is my question...(mainly for Christains and other Deists)
Is it possible to set "God" aside for one week, and have faith in yourself?..Is it possible to get the exact same results you would get praying to your "god"(or goddesses) that you would get if you prayed to your self.
Would you ever accept that challange? Or would you stay thinking about and having faith in someone else?..
What would scare you the most about accepting the challange to have faith in yourself and still live your life as you are now?

Answer 1

What you're saying is... now that God has cleaned up my life, helped me to be a better person, and given me all the talents, tools, and gifts that I need to be who I am today, why don't I push him aside, ignore him for a week, and pretend like everything I have I got by myself.

That's just rude.

And no, I wouldn't dare live a lie like that.

Answer 2

Good question. Yes, I've walked my own way before with both good and bad results, on occasion even as a christian.

But if God is in control then He already knows what you will or won't do. He makes the rain to fall on the just & unjust. So just because you got the same results doesn't prove anything unless you're able to prove they would have been different if you had prayed.

In this sense faith is the evidence of things not seen. I'll still make wrong choices this side of heaven. But focusing on what God wills clears my mind to think and reason more clearly thus I make better choices.

Maybe you'd get the same results "Oming" your way through life or just going with the flow. But until YOU can prove it would be the same why should I follow your advice when prayer has always worked well for me?

Answer 3

To tell you the truth we Christians set God aside a lot! We also try to do thing with out God some times. That is when thing start to go all down heal for us and we see how much we need God. This is one thing you will never get as someone who is unsaved. So I ask you this: Why don't you try God and put your ways aside and try God's why?
http://cmrbc.org/gospel.html

Answer 4

There is a difference I think in the faith you speak of. Faith or believing in yourself is necessary only to the point that you are compelled to live life, not not be a recluse. Faith in God though is something...more. Faith in such a unfathomable being is in itself unfathomable. God provides for me everything. I have tons of stories of times that God has provided for me at the right time and place, even though I think that God has abandoned me. I don't believe solely in God just so that I don't have to look at myself, God causes by my faith in Him, to look at myself. I think sometimes God is a huge magnifying glass. He points out the things that are not Holy and tells you how to fix them. Then He rewards the things that are Holy. I've researched Abraham, who is the father of faith, and the things he had to do, not because he didn't believe in himself, but because he believed in God more than himself. It's unbelievable the things some of the great men and women of God have done in the Bible. I don't pray to myself because I am not Holy. God is greater than I am, than anyone is. I will pray to Him without ceasing. I believe in myself enough to do that.

Answer 5

Its a silly argument. one doesnt either have faith in GOD or yourself.. and what does praying to yourself actually mean? faith is faith whether it includes a GOD or not.

Can't wait for you third part of this question. seems like you don't have much faith in your message if you need to lead people down this multiple question path..

Just say what you feel.. have faith in yourself.

Answer 6

Faith is acting on a belief. We hold beliefs in order to achieve something or arrive somewhere.

I have a belief in the existence of God because I want to know the One who created me. I have to believe in order to seek Him because we don't seek those things that we don't believe exists.

So, if my goal is to find God and to experience God, how can I set God aside for one week? This question of yours just shows a depth of misunderstanding of basic concepts.

Answer 7

actually every day we live without having faith in god is a lost for our lives it's empty i can't imagine my self losing my faith in god because i know that the next think that will happened is losing everything beautiful and chinning in my life and believe me i can't and i won't take the chances of losing my life that i build it in all these year's ..and with all the help god gives to me and all the beautiful thinks i Had because of my faith in him how can i forget all of that and pray for myself me this Creator who isn't perfect and with all the mistakes i do every day what can i do to help myself when i m in trouble the answer is that i can't do any think but God can do a lot he can save me and he does.

Answer 8

The situation you describe is how I was before I converted...

I still have faith in myself, that faith is further expounded upon by my trust in God and His guidance. I could easily go back to disbelief, but it would not be to my advantage...

Answer 9

You do need faith in your life, or rather you do need GOD. it does not matters what religion, for there is only one GOD ( don't confuse GOD with goddesses, duhh!!) n you don't pray to yourself ( you r not god ).

Answer 10

Is it possible for one week to have my eyes sealed shut, my emotions to stop flowing our my mind to become amnesiatic to the glorious feeling of God grace? No I am quite sure it is impossible and even if it is possible I wouldnt wish that travesty on any Chrsitian!