What does it mean, to have faith?
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It's when God takes the blinders off your spiritual eyes.\n\nhttp://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0107.htm
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Faith is to believe in something without the luxury of proof, such as god.  You have faith in god without any possible proof of existence.\n\nIt's like saying we believe the the stork brings babies to pregnant women.  No proof in that.  The scientific explanation of children is that the male's sperm fertilizes the female's egg and in 9 months, that egg becomes a baby (pretty simplified).\n\nWhy don't you look up the definition of 'theory' as it relates to science.  Everything in science is a theory.  Gravity, for instance, is still a theory.  You believe in gravity don't you?  \n\nScience is based on theories backed by lots of proof.  And as such, I don't need faith to believe in it - I can see the information that backs all of the scientific theories.\n\nI'm not a scientist and I won't try to explain what I do know..  I just know it.  Why don't you refrain from spouting off your ignorance and read up on something you have no idea of.
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Having faith and just having knowledge.
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I have problems with "faith".  Faith is essentially asking you to believe something that defies logic, science, reason, experience.  This is the one hook that the church must have in order to keep the good believers believing.\n\nOtherwise, if people started thinking and questioning the dogma of their church and the very existence of God and the truth about Jesus, then they might stray away from the Church.\n\nWithout faith, then people may have to start thinking for themselves and develop their own spiritual path without being told what and how to do it.
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Blind faith implies not questioning the source, be it God or Charles Manson. And blind faith IS bad, for Religion, for Society, and for individuals.\n\nI have faith, educated, researched faith, and answers to all my questions. There is a diffrence between educating yourself on the source, and following without question.\n\nGood Question, and good point as well.
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just being able to wake up every morning and know that i have God in my heart to help me make it through every day is the best news i hear. i can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Phil 4:13\n\nwhen you step out of the known light, into the unknown darkness, FAITH is knowing that one of 2 things will happen. you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly.\n\nWe are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience. \nWe are spiritual beings going through a temporary human experience..
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it is comes from believing in oneself having faith in whatever u do.
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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."
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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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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.\n\nBelieve means to have faith in something, have no doubt about it.
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i do believe in faith. it sounds like you were meant to be with this person whether that is for a friend or a soul mate. don't let them out of your life.
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No one has proof. That's why it's called faith.\n\nThe real question is why do you need to beleive?
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It can mean hope and peace also, which is what the religion it's based on believes in.\n\nIt can be like a good luck charm.
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No.\n\nTo accept faith is to distribute the logic behind reason.\n\nReason is merely taking what lies before us and describing how it got there correct?  \n\nAll we can know is what we know.\n\nBut what about what we cannot know?\n\nIf reason suggets that all things arrived from something. faith is accepting that you didn't put it there.  Someone else did.\n\nUsing reason and faith, always that element of faith, we find hope and aspiration.  Contentment.\n\nReason always leads to more questions. \nFaith brings you to a solution.
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John 6:29\nJesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."\n\nJames 2:\n14What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. \n 18But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." \n      Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. \n\n 19You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. \n\n 20You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[d]? 21Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,"[e] and he was called God's friend. 24You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone. \n\n 25In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.\n\nMatt 25\n\n31"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. \n 34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' \n\n 37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' \n\n 40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' \n\n 41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' \n\n 44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' \n\n 45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' \n\n 46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
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Well pardon me if I take the Bible's definition of faith...."Faith is the evidence of things not seen"
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I heard an old guy named Dr. Eno preach on faith one time.  One of those guys who have been around so long and was pretty wise. He summed is up this way:  "Faith is believing God."\n\nI've always remembered that and I've always found it to fit.