If there's evidence then what's the need for faith?
2007-10-30 12:08:51 · 26 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Faith does not require evidence. If you need evidence then you do not have or need faith. Heb. 11:1 Faith is the evidence of thing's "not seen."
2007-10-30 12:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by jrealitytv 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith does not require evidence, that is why it is faith. Faith allows you to believe in an uncertainty, and the unprovable.
If you tell me two different colors when mixed together produce yet another color, then show me how you mixed the colors, then showed me the outcome, you have evidence of your claim.
If you tell me two different colors when mixed produce another color - show me nothing, and tell me I must believe you, that claim is faith. You ask me to believe because you tell me it is true.
There is no evidence for faith. But if you believe based on what you are told - some will claim that it is evidence, but you can see that it is not really evidence at all.
Science finds evidence by using methods that allow all your senses to acknowledge what they have found. These are called theories. Theories in science change because they go through scrutiny by others in the same field and are approved of or disapproved - based on experiments. It is a theory until another scientist adds to the theory and it goes through another series of scrutinies then another theory may or may be issued. Science does not necessarily change its mind, it expounds the theories until they become facts.
2007-10-30 12:41:09 · answer #2 · answered by Tricia R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is what you hang onto when there is nothing else to hang on to. The fact that you exist says you had a creator. A statue exists because it had a creator. that is evidence. If you want to know some aspect of your future life then that requires faith. You need faith to know things are on the right track and will turn out for the best.
A wave once said to another wave, "Don't you see what is going to happen to us? like the other waves we are going to crash on the beach.". The other wave replied. "you are not a wave, you are apart of the ocean.".
2007-10-30 12:25:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no 'need' of faith really but how the religious people describe it, they are referring to blind faith.
Anyone having faith in something they are unsure about is a victim of ignorance. I personally can only have faith in something i KNOW will work- either through experience, evidence or reasoning.
2007-10-30 12:14:51 · answer #4 · answered by Jahfrog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith brings the evidence that is not obtainable to the natural man, only the spiritual man can understand.
Being born again is a spiritual experience that allows one to "see" the Kingdom of Heaven. Then the journey begins. Up until that point most mock and spur the things of the spirit realm because they simply do not understand.
2007-10-30 12:15:55 · answer #5 · answered by A Voice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would ask that question.
some leaps of faith are short, and some are long.
example Mormonism- no places have been found, founder has a criminal record of fraud, there is no Hebrew DNA in Indians, there is no linguistic or anthropological evidence to get close to it.
The bible, and even the Koran if you really want to reach...are real. Gangas Kahn's people even wrote about Mosses. Do you start to see what holds the doors back from believing in the Easter bunny?
2007-10-30 12:16:26 · answer #6 · answered by Just a guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ".
2007-10-30 12:22:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Faith, by definition, is the belief in something without evidence or proof, similar to hoping, or wishful thinking. That statement alone pretty much nullifies the first answer.
If you had evidence, then it wouldn't be faith, would it? It would be actual knowledge.
2007-10-30 12:13:30 · answer #8 · answered by Alex H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith is believing without evidence as told by those without knowledge about things without parallel, even though your intellect is all the while rejecting it. Otherwise there would be no need for faith.
2007-10-30 12:13:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 4 red marbles and 4 blue marbles in a jar. You take a marble out without looking at it and put it in your pocket. You think it is blue. Three marbles are drawn from the jar and revealed to be red. That is evidence that favors the marble in your pocket being blue. The marble could be red. Evidence does not preclude faith.
2007-10-30 12:17:35 · answer #10 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋