"Faith" Defined by Ambrose Bierce. Comments?
151720
You are right.  When we get to heaven,faith will no longer be needed because we will know God.\nTell me, do you know about the big bang and black holes or do you believe in them.  The evidence for Black Holes is infered, its the absence of background information that indicates something is sucking the light the light away and bending the light of one star so we see two images of the same star on earth.\nBelief in God is infered by the universe and the order we see.  Neither of us have knowledge of that wich is beyond us.
351690
I find faith to not have much middle ground as far as thinking goes -- you usually have people who just use faith as an excuse not to have to think about things at all (they just want the answers provided to them, so they can feel secure), and then you have those really struggle with faith and pursue it and think critically of everything throughout the entire ongoing process of looking for meaning.\n\nCriticial thinking and faith is not exclusionary, but you'll see many of the first type of people (the non-thinkers) simply because it's so easy to do.
813386
okay ...now where is your list of believers huh???\n\nchristopher columbus, abraham lincoln, galileo, issac newton, and on and on.\n\n\nbiased flawed reasoning...yet once again. no i have found just the opposite. when i put too much faith in my finite mortal flawed self...my achievments are limited.\n\nfaith in God is the greatest weapon ever.\n\nbut i am guessing yo don't even understand what i mean.
780234
Your question cannot be answered.\n\nReason and faith are unrelated.  More, they are unrelatable.\n\nIt is a confusion of terms to consider the vernacular "belief", implying an awareness of facts which are subject to confirmation and disproof, with "belief" in the context of faith and religion, where the tenets are merely stated.\n\nEven within the technical arena, even within that most exacting of disciplines, mathematics, there remain elements that are the subject of belief without proof and without the possibility of proof (Kurt Godel).  \n\nFaith and reason are disjoint, and the tools of one are inadequate for a study or analysis of the other.  Therefore your question is improper, from a logical viewpoint, and the concept of a rational explanation of faith has no meaning.
445739
No. Absolutely not. The fact that I have a strong faith is a personal decision. What anyone else chooses to believe in is entirely up to them, and I do respect that. I wouldn't be living the way my faith requires if I were to push it onto someone else. I respect their beliefs the same way that I would want someone to respect mine. (Lutheran)
835344
I have living faith because I have faith. The only dead faith is no faith.
455537
I have many favorites, but this one really stands out to me.\n\nHebrews 11:3\n\n"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."\n\nI really like this verse because it shows that our faith in God is not visible, but we still trust and believe in it.  Not all things are visible, but we always rely that they are there.  Oxygen and air, for example, are not visible yet we breathe the fresh air we intake into our lungs in order to survive every day.  \nWe need the breath of God in order to live fully.
840398
I think it would be more appropriate to call that person an agnostic, one who is not certain that God exists but is open to the moral code of the faith.  Tradition, theology, ideas and behavior are different things.  One may find value in one but not another.
462490
Ha, this could be a little true.\n\nBut there is a faith which is not so wacky.  Think of it like this:\n\nLet us say that you have a friend who has always come through for you.  Then one day, you get stranded and you call your friend to come get you, and they say, "I'm on my way!"  Should you trust your friend?  I say yes, of course!  They have always come through for you in the past, so you should trust them.\n\nI think this is what the proper meaning of faith is.  It is trust.  It is an optimism that everything is going to work for the good.
1046107
Exactly. When it comes to religion, the word "faith" means believing in something you know isn't true.
371915
If and I mean If you believe in God, you would have what The believers in God have and that would be "Faith". Faith is believing something to be true,even thou you havent actually seen it with your own eyes. I know God to exist but in what religion,Im not sure but with Faith I know that all will be revealed when His perfect plan has been finished.  Read Deuteronomy 32:20  ;And He said(God), I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation (froward meaning -perverse), children in whom is no faith.  Bless You Friend.
598301
I'm with you. We need both faith and works.\n\nThe works God is talking about is not a Brownie Points system of "earning your way into heaven." But you cannot sustain faith for very long without true works. Faith dies without the fire of those works. However, God sees people as individuals, so there is no comparing with your neighbor to see who did "the most" or who is "most worthy." It just does not work like that.
531064
intelligence isnt faith.\n\nyep he was a sinner.
666734
Faith- believing in something that you can not see. It is a belief that suggests there is more than what is before you.It is staying strong,emotionally. It is the voice within that gives you peace. "Walk by faith, not by sight."
1045960
Yes. Religion is an organized system of belief in the divine.  In the context of religion, faith is the belief in such a system.
631595
I have understood that James was referring to the Works with the Faith as the following:\n\nA person of faith will do the works of a person of faith.\nNot charitable acts, but works of prayer, fasting, congregation and of course charity.  I'm not here to talk about cahtolicism, but, most cahtolics I know, live worldly lives, and go confess every sunday of their sins.\n\nthey don't kill, they don't use God's name in vain, they don't steal, they don't lust, however, some do not pray as they should, or use their body of live sacrifice to God in Fasting, and reading the scriptures. Most still live wordly lives and those are not the works that God wants from us.  He wants us to SERVER HIM, PRAISE HIM, AT ALL TIMES GOOD TIMES OR BAD TIMES, WE MUST PRAISE HIM, GLORIFY HIS NAME.\n\nIf I am at the club with a drink on Saturday night I am worshipping the Devil, then go to MASS on Sunday and ask for forgiveness, does that make me a person of faith?\n\nMy faith does not encourage me of having works and no faith, or having faith and no work, they both go together, by my works they see the fruit of the harvest and know that my faith us true.\n\nGod Bless,
1094162
LMAO....good question. I guess faith only goes so far before it just turns into plain ignorance.\n\n~SugaSw33t