What is faith?

Answer 1

Faith is the belief in something that has not yet been seen or fully proven.

I have faith that the balcony outside my apartment will hold me when I step on it but until I actually step on it.... I am using faith that it will not fall to the ground.

Answer 2

Belief is holding something to be true. Rational belief requires that what we hold to be true has not yet been proven false.

Belief always involves movement toward a goal. We only hold beliefs in order to go somewhere or arrive at a goal.

Faith is acting on the belief. Believing in parachutes is not the same as strapping one on and jumping out of the plane. Jumping requires faith.

Belief without faith is merely lip service.

Answer 3

Faith is believing without seeing. In other words, we walk by faith, not by sight. You need to accept Jesus as the Messiah and THEN you can read the Word. Not the other way around.

Answer 4

For me, declaring faith is very difficult. But not faith in God, the creator. For me that just takes looking around me.

Answer 5

Faith is basically to believe, sometimes not knowing about something. For example, believing in a god but not knowing if he really exists.

Answer 6

Faith is usually associated with religion
Believing that there is a God who created heaves and earth and all living and not living things between earth and skies. though no one has seen the God.

Faith means believing. It is written in the Divine Revelation of God that if we reprent to God for our sins, He forgives us.
Believing that He is Just and will reward for our good deeds and punish for our wrong doings that includes any thing bad we do in our life.

Believing that if we give to needy for the sake of God, He will return it in this life or in heaven many many times more than what we gave for His sake to please HIM.

Believing that a day of our death is written by God just like a day of our birth was written by God and the life and death happens on the time written. The Time and place of death never changes even by a minute.

Believing that at the end of this world we will meet our God, see Him and all our family members, friends and all whom we knew after the final judgment of God when God will settle us in places we deserve for our good work in this life. If a relative is being punished in hell, we will see him in that turmoil from where we will be placed. If we have been awarded a place in heaven and some one we know has been rewarded in heaven but at a higher level, we will be able see and talk to him even if he is living in a far away planet. God will have highly sofisticated telecommunication system for us to communicate and see each other and every one we would want to see.

Remember God created all sciences and has used science and matter that he created to creat this world and every thing in it. God guides men (scientists) who struggle to discover what God has created for us in the world we are living in.

Today humans have discovered how to talk to our relatives living on the other side of Globe. God who created evey thing has to have much better system that we can not even imagine today.

God says in Quran when I say 'BE' it becomes. We could not have understood few hundred years ago but today we see that humans have built such computers that they convert our voice into computer language, search the information we ask and gives it to us again in human voice through our telephone. I am sure God has such a super computers that have pre-planned programs to perform what God orders saying 'BE' and the thin is built instantly and will be presented in fron of us..

So I believe and have faith in God that what ever God says in Quran He will do it and He does not fail in His promises.

That should be plenty to write for now on this topic.

Hope this has added to your knowledge.

May God guide us all to knowledge we seek.

Answer 7

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.”

Answer 8

Real faith is "knowingness" based on direct experience... It is considerably more substantial than belief in something you have been taught.

The Original Kingdom Gospel was based on that direct experience (in Spirit), rather than "belief."

Answer 9

The word “faith” is translated from the Greek pi′stis, primarily conveying the thought of confidence, trust, firm persuasion. Depending on the context, the Greek word may also be understood to mean “faithfulness” or “fidelity.”—1Th 3:7; Tit 2:10.

The Scriptures tell us: “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Heb 11:1) “Assured expectation” translates the Greek word hy‧po′sta‧sis. This term is common in ancient papyrus business documents. It conveys the idea of something that underlies visible conditions and guarantees a future possession. In view of this, Moulton and Milligan suggest the rendering: “Faith is the title deed of things hoped for.” (Vocabulary of the Greek Testament, 1963, p. 660) The Greek word e′leg‧khos, rendered “evident demonstration,” conveys the idea of bringing forth evidence that demonstrates something, particularly something contrary to what appears to be the case. Thereby this evidence makes clear what has not been discerned before and so refutes what has only appeared to be the case. “The evident demonstration,” or evidence for conviction, is so positive or powerful that faith is said to be it.

Faith is, therefore, the basis for hope and the evidence for conviction concerning unseen realities. The entire body of truths delivered by Jesus Christ and his inspired disciples constitutes the true Christian “faith.” (Joh 18:37; Ga 1:7-9; Ac 6:7; 1Ti 5:8) Christian faith is based on the complete Word of God, including the Hebrew Scriptures, to which Jesus and the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures frequently referred in support of their statements.

Faith is based on concrete evidence. The visible creative works testify to the existence of an invisible Creator. (Ro 1:20) The actual occurrences taking place during the ministry and earthly life of Jesus Christ identify him as the Son of God. God’s record of providing for his earthly creatures serves as a valid basis for believing that he will surely provide for his servants, and his record as a Giver and Restorer of life lends ample evidence to the credibility of the resurrection hope. (Mt 6:26, 30, 33; Ac 17:31; 1Co 15:3-8, 20, 21) Furthermore, the reliability of God’s Word and the accurate fulfillment of its prophecies instill confidence in the realization of all of His promises. (Jos 23:14) Thus, in these many ways, “faith follows the thing heard.”—Ro 10:17; compare Joh 4:7-30, 39-42; Ac 14:8-10.

So faith is not credulity. The person who may ridicule faith usually has faith himself in tried and trusted friends. The scientist has faith in the principles of his branch of science. He bases new experiments on past discoveries and looks for new discoveries on the basis of those things already established as true. Likewise, the farmer prepares his soil and sows the seed, expecting, as in previous years, that the seed will sprout and that the plants will grow as they receive the needed moisture and sunshine. Therefore faith in the stability of the natural laws governing the universe actually constitutes a foundation for man’s plans and activities. Such stability is alluded to by the wise writer of Ecclesiastes: “The sun also has flashed forth, and the sun has set, and it is coming panting to its place where it is going to flash forth. The wind is going to the south, and it is circling around to the north. Round and round it is continually circling, and right back to its circlings the wind is returning. All the winter torrents are going forth to the sea, yet the sea itself is not full. To the place where the winter torrents are going forth, there they are returning so as to go forth.”—Ec 1:5-7.

Answer 10

"Faith" is the ability to fill in the gap.