2007-11-01 06:28:03 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
how do you know it does not exist,either?
2007-11-01 06:41:50 · answer #1 · answered by Chakat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot put faith in something that does not exist. However you can put faith in something that DOES exist. Just because one person does not accept something does not automatically mean that whatever it is does not exist. Faith only comes about from a deep belief in something. It doesn't come overnight but after some time when the person has usually absorbed much knowledge on the subject. So don't knock those that have it, maybe spend the time trying to find out more yourself.
2007-11-01 06:37:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
... "Faith is the only effective link. If we wish to have any link with the sun or the moon, ordinary instruments won't do, but some plenary medium like electricity, etc., can help to connect us. We must approach via a plane similar to the object. Similarly, we can approach the infinite only with the help of shraddha [faith]. We cannot hope to have any connection with that finest plane of fundamental existence of this world with the help of the eye, nose or ear, or even by intelligence or reason. If we want to have any connection with the finest plane that is underlying this creation, it is possible only through faith (sraddhamayo 'yam purusah).
"Then, the question of credibility arises: faith may be blind. But as long as the qualification of 'blind' faith exists, 'seeing' faith must also be possible! Blind faith is diseased faith, but we must connect by real or healthy faith. Then again, our experience must be confined to our own limitations; so how much faith can we accumulate?" ...
"When we try to establish a connection with the infinite, there are infinite possibilities. But how much faith can finite things like us have? How much can we imagine? Imagination must also have a limit, yet the infinite exists, beyond even the limit of any imagination. The infinite is so spacious and broad that even our imagination fails. ..."
"So we must not cower under blind faith - there may exist infinitely more than we can imagine. Only genuine faith can help us in that direction, toward the infinite. And even when we have some conception, it is said that the key to make Himself known to us is in His hand. When He opens the door, we can enter. The key is not within our hand." ...
..."Because we cannot enter that realm as a subject or making it an object of our investigation, we deny the existence of such a thing. What does this mean? Fools may be satisfied with such an imaginary tendency, but really there is such a Domain, and when He wants to take us within His jurisdiction we can have some experience of it. ... We cannot enter that domain as a subject. Even if we approach Him as investigators, we can know Him only as much as He allows us to."
--Srila B. R. Sridhar Maharaj
2007-11-01 06:47:46 · answer #3 · answered by djb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we think that maybe, just maybe someday something that we wish existed will exsist.
But some people make it where that does happen that it does end up exsisting after all and everything we thought was all in our heads.
I believe in faith, and I also belive in things that supposdily dont exsist.
Because eventually us OURSELVES wont exsist.
I loved this question BTW.
I found it quite interesting, and differnt, and worth the points.
2007-11-01 06:32:28 · answer #4 · answered by TTC #1 hoping for 2009 baby! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is for the existence and not for non-existence.
2007-11-01 06:33:55 · answer #5 · answered by agni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you know it doesn't exist you can't have faith in it, and if you have faith you know it exists, just think about it..
2007-11-01 06:33:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can one be so sure that a higher being does not exist? In my experience, it takes more faith to not believe than to embrace God as truth.
2007-11-01 06:32:57 · answer #7 · answered by Jen G 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People that have faith in something believe it exists. People that don't have faith question it. We will all find out in the end.
2007-11-01 06:30:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Faith is believing that there is a greater power at work. Life without faith is like life without hope.
You gotta believe!!
2007-11-01 06:34:05 · answer #9 · answered by Ginny S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you say things that does not exists, what do you really mean? Can you give a specific example? Things that our senses can't capture but it's already inside our mind, that thing does exists! May it be real or unreal.
2007-11-01 06:43:31 · answer #10 · answered by renewed_100 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or better yet why ask a question just to provoke an argument?
The religion thing has been argued enough. I don't think anyone is willing to change their beliefs aver a Yahoo forum.
2007-11-01 06:35:36 · answer #11 · answered by John N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋