Why do Christians have to rely on 100% faith for their belief?
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No faith was needed to believe in god? If you have read the bible I ask you who did god appear to? Thats right, he appeared to those who WROTE THE BIBLE. Those people were called prophets. God communicated to them the needs of the people at all times. Those prophets had to teach and testify to the people. Hardly anyone saw God.\n\nNow if one guy see's God and tell's thousands of other people he exists and what he wants us to do, those thousands of people who didn't see him require alot of FAITH to respond.\n\nMost christians want to believe that since we have a few pages of christs teachings, and few hundred pages of his apostles teachines, we know or can know, everything through study, the bible is perfect.\nI don't believe that, I think thats a rediculous, false believe. If you study the history of the bible you'll find that also. I do love the bible however, it teaches great things, but not everything, not even close.\n\nThe true church will have the same organization of the early church, apostles, prophets and teachers. Those apostls and prophets are the only ones who can communicate to god and recieve revelations for our generation.
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Christians are very ignorant of other faiths.  I suppose because they're been raised to think that theirs is the only true faith and that everyone else needs to be converted to Christianity.\n\nIt's getting better though.
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yes it is called faith. all religions use it in prodigious amounts.
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Christianity is a faith based belief system.  Secularists want it to be translated into their evidence based belief system and it really can't be to their satisfaction.  Of course it seems that since there's no evidence computers can fly together out of nothing one should be able to conclude that the much more complex universe couldn't have either, but that point seems lost on them.
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This is a point I try to drive home in Christians all the time.  Abraham, Moses, Ezekiel, and the like supposedly talked directly to God.  Did these men have faith?  No.  They had proof.  But they told everybody else to have faith.  Why?  Well, I think it's rather obvious.  Who the hell would believe them otherwise?\n\nAnd this is the problem with Christian "faith".  Christians say "God tells us to have faith".  Did God tell you to have faith, or did a man tell you to have faith?  A MAN TOLD YOU TO HAVE FAITH!  To be specific, a con-man told you to have faith.  Unless God has appeared before you and told you "Have faith in me", then you are placing your faith in the words of a man.\n\nLet me say that one more time, for those that skipped over it.  Unless God appeared before you and told you, "Have faith in me", then you are placing your faith in the words of a MAN.\n\nWake up.  Think logically.  Be rational.  Apply the same amount of scrutiny to your religion as you would to anything else in life.  No one ever does this, because they've been told all their lives that religion is the truth, and to doubt that is a sin.\n\nDo you not see that this is an elegantly designed snow job?!  This is how religion has survived all this time.  It is designed, from bottom to top, to keep its followers blind!  Open your eyes.  You're smarter than this!\n\nEdit - For those saying these men were prophets... who told you they were prophets?  THEY DID!!!!!! AGHHHHH!!!
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When you are able to think, you do not need faith. I do not follow blindly. I don't need any other person to explain things to me. Mainly ones that claim we all are inbred, coming from two original people, or somebody claiming that I must do as they say and give money or burn forever. There is no proof of god, only inconsistent explanations that contradict themselves.
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Believing in Jesus is an act of faith because there is no evidence.
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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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to believe in a god you need faith and nothing else
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LMAO....good question. I guess faith only goes so far before it just turns into plain ignorance.\n\n~SugaSw33t
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People should put more faith in themselves and God.
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Pardon my intrusion, but I do believe in God, 100%.  Not any god or idol of worship, but Jesus Christ, the one true God.  As a believer, my opinion is that "those" who don't believe in God ARE missing out on something (many things), including friendship (if you're alone in this world), fellowship (with other believers, not persecutors), and spiritual satisfaction (always knowing that if God brings you "to it", then God will bring you "through it".)  Good question,  probably no right or wrong answers though...
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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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"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6\nFrom this passage it is clear that faith is a key element in pleasing GOD. The believing and seeking, are a big part of it also. The bottom line is in our willing choice of GOD above everything else. that is the begining of obedience.\nMatt.\n\nP.S. For more on this see my sights.
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I have living faith because I have faith. The only dead faith is no faith.
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Evidence is not for those without faith. When someone chooses not to believe, there is no study, experiment, or proof that will convince them otherwise. They will always find a way to rationalize the evidence you present to them. Faith is a gift from God to the Believer, and does not come from OURSELVES.  You either Believe God's supernatural power, and the benefit of prayer, or you don't.
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Exactly. When it comes to religion, the word "faith" means believing in something you know isn't true.