Just what is faith?

Just what is faith? You here of it all the time. You must have faith to
believe. You must have faith to understand. What is faith and why is it
such a popular buzz-word in the christian world? Is it used wrong? Is
it used right? Is it used too much like the word love so that it has
lost it's real meaning?

Just what is faith? You here of it all the time. You must have faith to
believe. You must have faith to understand. What is faith and why is it
such a popular buzz-word in the christian world? Is it used wrong? Is it
used right? Is it used too much like the word love so that it has lost
it's real meaning?

On 2008-04-24 14:39:40 +0100, "Fred Jones" <supportsystem@juno.com> said:

Just what is faith? You here of it all the time. You must have faith to
believe. You must have faith to understand. What is faith and why is it
such a popular buzz-word in the christian world? Is it used wrong? Is
it used right? Is it used too much like the word love so that it has
lost it's real meaning?

Fith means something akin to 'trust'. It's living in the assumption
that you are right about something about which you could be mistaken.
The nicest analogy I've heard comes from the founder of Sufism. Faith
is like when a rich merchant puts all his goods and gear on board a
ship bound for a distant market. He cann ot be sure that they will ever
reach it, but lives in the assumption that it will.

"I refuse to prove I exist", says god. "Because proof denies
faith and without faith, I am nothing"
[Douglas Adams].

"Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational
thinking, which leads by a slippery slope toward
constitutional democracy."
[Robert Anton Wilson]

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to
evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of,
the lack of evidence.
[Richard Dawkins]

Fith means something akin to 'trust'. It's living in the assumption
that you are right about something about which you could be mistaken.
The nicest analogy I've heard comes from the founder of Sufism. Faith
is like when a rich merchant puts all his goods and gear on board a
ship bound for a distant market. He cann ot be sure that they will ever
reach it, but lives in the assumption that it will.


"I refuse to prove I exist", says god. "Because proof denies
faith and without faith, I am nothing"
[Douglas Adams].

"Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational
thinking, which leads by a slippery slope toward
constitutional democracy."
[Robert Anton Wilson]

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to
evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of,
the lack of evidence.
[Richard Dawkins]

Andrew wrote:

On 2008-04-24 14:39:40 +0100, "Fred Jones" <supportsystem@juno.com
said:

Just what is faith? You here of it all the time. You must have faith
to believe. You must have faith to understand. What is faith and why
is it such a popular buzz-word in the christian world? Is it used
wrong? Is it used right? Is it used too much like the word love so
that it has lost it's real meaning?

Fith means something akin to 'trust'. It's living in the assumption
that you are right about something about which you could be mistaken.
The nicest analogy I've heard comes from the founder of Sufism. Faith
is like when a rich merchant puts all his goods and gear on board a
ship bound for a distant market. He cann ot be sure that they will ever
reach it, but lives in the assumption that it will.


"I refuse to prove I exist", says god. "Because proof denies faith and
without faith, I am nothing" [Douglas Adams].

"Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking,
which leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy."
[Robert Anton Wilson]

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think
and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because
of, the lack of evidence.
[Richard Dawkins]

http://HeartMDPhD.com/Doomedsatan



http://HeartMDPhD.com/HolySpirit/ProofsByGOD

Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/Doomedsatan

Thats is easy. Faith is believing in something for which there is no
objective verifable evidence!

convicted neighbor Bill M wrote:
Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/Doomedsatan

Thats is easy. Faith is believing in something for which there is no
objective verifable evidence!

Incorrect.

Many believe that the universe is finite even though there is no
objective verifiable evidence that the universe is finite.

This is not the same as writing that many have faith that the universe
is finite.

Faith is a composite of both belief **and** trusting that one will
receive objective verifiable evidence that the belief is correct.

Your not being correct shows that you are being guided by the spirit
of error (self) and that the Holy Spirit is absolutely right to
convict you:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/Convicts

May we, who are Christians, continue to pray for your perishing soul,
dear Bill:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/Convicts/PrayForBill



http://HeartMDPhD.com/HolySpirit/GreatAssembly

convicted friend monkfish wrote:

Do you have faith in the scientific method?

I believe the scientific method will give us answers.

Believing something, like the scientific method, and having faith in
something, liek a God, are two different things.

If you cannot understand
that and do not know the difference, then no sense continuing since we are
not using the same meanings of the words.