Multiple Choice
A) The capacity to believe that which you know to be untrue.
B) To accept as true without evidence.
The bible calls faith "The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." This fits in with B.
If A or B are true, why is that virtuous? Why does nobility of faith increase as the amount of evidence decreases?
Also. Is faith intellectually honest?
2007-11-13 05:05:57 · 15 answers · asked by coralsnayk 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the unwavering belief in something without any evidence or facts to support it.
2007-11-13 05:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Belief without evidence.
Faith is the default reason for believing something when you really have no real reason to believe it. Generally, it is belief in something because some kind of emotional attachment that makes you want to believe (or fear) it is true.
Religions only push the idea that faith is virtuous because they don't have any real evidence to back their claims. If religions had any real evidence of any gods, they would be trashing "faith" like everybody else.
Faith is only intellectually honest when you admit that it is just wishful thinking.
2007-11-13 05:09:56 · answer #2 · answered by nondescript 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Faith is knowing that good will come of whatever happens to us.
I don't think it is intellectually dishonest. I think we do ourselves a great disservice if we only believe in that which we see. Faith provides a hope and a joy beyond that which is scientifically evident.
2007-11-13 05:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by bumpsetspike 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Faith is believing God and acting in accordance. Faith is an action word not just something in the head.
2007-11-13 05:15:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I can see that you've read your Bible enough to have pulled out Hebrews 11:1--"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." Since all I really care about in my life is pleasing God, let me add to this Hebrews 11:6--"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek Him." Can you see love itself (not its products)? Can you see hate itself (not its products)? And yet only a fool would deny that either exists. As far as the intellectual honesty of my faith, I've been wrong enough times in my life to HONESTLY say that when it comes to my faith, I don't give a rat's patootie about my intellect. God didn't ask for that--He asked for my heart.
2007-11-13 05:20:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Usually what is real is what is seen, felt, experienced or known individually. All these are experiences in this dimensional plane. Faith is to believe in the only true reality - God. To believe in a reality unknown to this world or its dimensions.
2007-11-13 05:14:14 · answer #6 · answered by Overseer 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
For me, faith is what it takes to get what I believe to be true in my mind down into my heart where God will see it and use it.
2007-11-13 05:10:08 · answer #7 · answered by doug 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
My answer is "B"! Faith is believing in something that you can't see, but you know it exists because you can sense its presence.
2007-11-13 05:13:51 · answer #8 · answered by Linda M 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Faith, by definition, is a virtue and grace from God by which we are able to know and love Him. Faith does not ignore reason and logic, as both come from God, and are enhanced by it.
2007-11-13 06:16:26 · answer #9 · answered by Danny H 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
“Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see...”
~ William Newton Clarke
2007-11-13 05:12:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋