how can u use faith as an argument to support your believe in god?
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I agree, I guess it's the same twisted logic people use when they choose to believe something they hear on FoxNews.
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Ask the different way round.\n\nBelieving (in any religion) is easy, you don't have to think.\n\nActually thinking prevents believing. And I prefer to think for myself. :-)
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Read the Bible, Talk to God for real. It works for me. Find a quite place,and build a relationship with God . It really does work. Have faith.
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:i\ndefined knowledge , trust , belief without emperical tangable evidence\nHeb 11:1  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.\n\nmore coming .... need time to write\n\nI have always had difficulty just trusting. I like and believe in logic and empirical evidence. Intuition, emotional decisions and insight all meant error to me. \n That was the case until a very close loved one was on her death bed, the doctors told me there was little hope, there remained only a prayer for a peaceful passing. Unable to pray for that I prayed for recovery. Hours later I felt a kind of peace and a feeling she would recover. She is with me now. In that prayer I prayed if he would grant that prayer I would trust all he said or did forever.\n It still did not come easy but with each experience of his faithfulness, and as I read scripture and stories of his faithfulness to the Israelites, my own faith grew stronger\n\nAs for the last part of your question, the object of the faith is the only thing which is important. His faithfulness is what gives faith it’s evidence
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I do believe in God. I have the proof that I believe it in my heart. Sometimes you don't have to see to believe.
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Faith is not something that can be easily explained, it is just something you know. The Bible says that faith is the belief in things not seen. I believe in air, I can't see it but sometimes I feel it. It is faith that makes me believe the air is still there even when the wind isn't blowing. God is like that. You can't see Him, but if you pay close attention you can feel Him sometimes.  It is faith that lets you believe that He is there even when you don't feel Him.
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I like the spirit of your philosophy, but as to the exact wording, it seems backwards to me. Try this: We don't know how, but faith allows us to know that everything is going to work out, somehow. Faith is a way of knowing, we can not know everything, but we can understand almost everything if we know the subject matter. More and more facts are coming to light for us everyday that we live if we live in faith, with one small exception. Death always catches us flatfooted. Unless, we are very old and or very wise and courious, and ready to find out.
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Dear brothers and sisters, what's the use of saying you have faith if you don't prove it by your actions? That kind of faith can't save anyone. Suppose you see a brother or sister who needs food or clothing,  and you say, "Well, good-bye and God bless you; stay warm and eat well" - but then you don't give that person any food or clothing. What good does that do? So you see, it isn't enough just to have faith. Faith that doesn't show itself by good deeds is no faith at all - it is dead and useless. - James chapter 2\n\nIf you think is wrong you won't do it. You do it because you don't think it is wrong.
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Consider it a blessing. it's easy to have faith and believe in something when no one disagrees with you or makes it uncomfortable to do so. now you can say you have faced adversity and STILL went to church and still upheld your belief. it's not the same as risking being fed to the lions, but hopefully you get the point, sometimes you have to stand up for your beliefs with more than words. have courage.
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If you're going to believe in God it has to come about from your own experiences. It has to be based in your own faith and trust. Im at the point where I think there is a spirit world but not necassarily a higher power, but sometimes I go back to thinking there is a higher power but not necessarily the conventional god. I think hes probably a sarcastic bastard if hes up there.
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You just have to have Faith in God, and use science to answer others.
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Faith does not rely on reality. It is a willingness, even desire, to believe in that which cannot be proven to exist. You can literally create any reality you want to, and if you have enough faith in it, that reality will appear solid and indisputable, to you, regardless of how unrealistic it is, or how little sense it makes. A lot of religious people don't really grasp this concept.
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Man, loaded but great question.\n\nThere is not enough truth to convince people of anything they don't want to believe when it comes to God.  Its a faith based system, by his design.  Ever asked yourself why faith?\n\nBecause to truely put our faith in God, seeing him from a lost perspective, requires that we set aside our "me" mentality.  We have to put our faith in this thing we don;t understand based on information that seems less than convincing (from a lost perspective.)  But this all important step is all that is asked of us.\n\nBetter to pray the spirit call to a person's heart and start working on them to ask questions, than to seek truth to convince those who have already decided they want nothing to do with God.  We are truely powerless over others is swaying their beliefs.  All we can hope for is to plant seeds and allow the spirit to go to work.\n\nread through some of the posts on here.  Its CRAZy.  People are daring you to "make them believe" in God.  Its not possible.  It wasn;t meant to be possible.  Its a faith based thing.  Free Will + Faith = Individual Decision.\n\nI know I didn't answer your question directly, but trying to accumulate enough knowledge to "win souls" will be a really frustrating endeavor that will ultimately bring you back to realizing The Holy Spirit does ALL the work in a salvation experience.
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Well, faith can be derived through an authoritarian or a rational approach....although one understands that it starts out as one and moves to the other.  One can use reason to butress faith (as many religions do).  \n\nAgain, one must juggle the semantics of the question.  What does one mean by "reason"?  If one accepts that a person who reasons would use an empirical approach to gaining all knoweledge, then there is a conflict between the two terms based on epistemology.\n\nIn my opinion, the conflict between faith and reason lies entirely in the fact that faith requires a man to forgoe reason and rely on dogma.  This prevents a human being from using all of his/her senses to find out for themselves.  So, in short...the answer is yes, although with reservation as I also believe that reason is used with faith-based systems as well.
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We cannot give you faith you have to have faith in God, if you lose heart you obviously dont believe in the power of God and remember nothing comes before the right time.
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You can't convince them.  They are not able to accept that you rejected their religion on evidences, because if they were to accept that, then that means that their religion CAN be rejected by an intelligent person on the basis of evidence.  They can't allow themselves to believe that because they need their religion to be true.  They need to believe that there is substantial evidence for their religion.\n\nTheir world would fall apart if they realized it wasn't as they think it is.  Too much is at stake for them.  It is very very hard to lay your religious beliefs on the line, TRULY look at them from a critical distance, because you have so much tied up with that religion.  It gives you emotional support, it forms your entire worldview, it is part of your self-identity and it is the most important element of your life.  It is frightening to even consider that it may be false.  So people are not able to see the evidence you put before them, because they are not looking at it objectively at all.\n\nYou can only have any effect with your evidences on those who are truly willing to look at them with true objectivity.  But that person is rare.  They are out there, obviously you were able to do it.  So you can only do so much in convincing people.
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I once was a religious person but something in my faith wasn't right so i decided to give up on God. I ve started rading phylosophy and got to the idea that God doesn't help us and religion is for the ones that are weak. But let me tell you something. It isn't all about believing. YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING. And you have to work hard to achieve the real faith.If you have a Bible open it and read something. You will find out that only weak persons give up faith not the strong ones.