Who believes in faith?

Question

I believe that all faiths should be content as long as there is faith. The Scientist still prays when a loved one is sick or dieing right. And the Preist sill still take his son to the docter if he's sick right.
there's always something to believe.
who thinks differently.

Answer 1

Religious faith is a personal position.

The supernatural – including God, heaven, hell, Satan and tooth fairies – is an invention of the human imagination. The following is for those who believe in the supernatural or indulge other fantasies in preference to reality.

Faith and logic are antithetical. If religious adherents would admit that they believe for PERSONAL, rather than logical, reasons, THEN they would be honest about their "faith". But it’s dishonest to claim one's faith is logical – faith is a personal position, not a logical conclusion.

Faith and doubt always go hand in hand. Faith without doubt is BLIND faith. It takes a closed mind to sublimate doubt to the point of blind faith. Normal people leaven their faith with a little common sense. Doubt always nibbles at the edges of their faith. After all, without doubt, faith would have no context, no purpose, no meaning, no point. Would it?

Because there is no evidence for anything supernatural (including God), NOBODY can claim ANY knowledge of it. Anybody who does is lying or delusional. It takes suspension of disbelief to believe in the supernatural: one must convince oneself that the impossible is possible. This is the opposite of curiosity. You have one life, one quest: yet you choose to surrender it to something you can’t possibly know anything about.

When people talk about faith, they're usually talking about the supernatural: God, angels, miracles, etc. There is, of course, lots of doubt involved because the supernatural is entirely outside the human (natural) realm. It's not so much that God or angels can't exist . . . the real point is that NOBODY has access to the supernatural and thus NOBODY knows ANYTHING about it. Anybody who claims to have faith in something he knows absolutely nothing about is actually confessing to placing his imagination before, and above, his intellect.

Imagination has its place . . . but not where life decisions are involved. Placing imagination above intellect is surrendering your quest for meaning. You are surrendering the meaning of your life to your religion; to your version of God.

And that's fine. Just be honest about it. You made a leap of faith. Your faith is a personal position – not a valid logical conclusion.

Answer 2

Everything you don't know for certain hangs on faith. Religion is mostly faith, so is science, history, psychology, etc. We take a handful of facts and tie them together with reasonable assumptions that can't easily or completely be proven wrong. The more people who believe them the easier it is to call them fact. The more reputable or prestigious the source the easier it is to call them fact. In the end it's mostly faith. Some put their faith in God, prophets, church leaders and holy scripture. Others put their faith in text books, websites, professors and peers. It's all the same. It's all faith.

Answer 3

Faith isn't just spiritual.
You can have faith in just about everything.
Faith that if you sit in a chair, it will not break.

Answer 4

I believe your faith is as good as the object you place it in.