Do you believe everyone has faith or am I just being ridiculous? — OpinionsMatter
Do you believe everyone has faith or am I just being ridiculous? — OpinionsMatter
Faith can represent a number of daily activities, but it happens to go unnoticed majority of the time. — OpinionsMatter
The technical definition of faith is: Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.(noun) — OpinionsMatter
I agree that it's reasonable to use the terms belief and faith as synonyms, and that in this sense everyone "has faith" in something or other.Do you believe everyone has faith or am I just being ridiculous? — OpinionsMatter
Faith is often taken to be 'blind' belief, without proof or evidence. But in classical Greek pistis (faith) had significations 1: that which gives confidence/assurance 2: means of persuasion (such as an argument or proof). — emancipate
The dictionary describes faith in two senses.
Faith
1. Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
"this restores one's faith in politicians"
2. Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.
-a system of religious belief.
"the Christian faith"
-a strongly held belief or theory.
"An Atheists faith"
I copied and pasted this directly from an online version of Merriam Webster's Dictionary.
I said what I said based on this entry. If you care to disprove the dictionary, which is based on logic, go ahead. But you all put faith in your houses that they aren't going to fall over and crush you, because your house has never failed you before. You completely trust your house, therefore you have faith in it. You don't necessarily have faith in the second sense, but you definitely do have it in the first. — OpinionsMatter
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Gnostic Christian Bishop
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Faith closes the mind. It is pure idol worship.
Faith is a way to quit using, "God given" power of Reason and Logic, and cause the faithful to embrace doctrines that moral people reject.
The God of the OT says, “Come now, and let us reason together,” [Isaiah 1:18]
How can literalists reason on God when they must ignore reason and logic and discard them when turning into literalist?
Those who are literalists can only reply somewhat in the fashion that Martin Luther did.
“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”
“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.”
This attitude effectively kills all worthy communication that non-theists can have with theist. Faith closes their mind as it is pure idol worship.
Literalism is an evil practice that hides the true messages of myths. We cannot show our faith based friends that they are wrong through their faith colored glasses. Their faith also plugs their ears.
Regards
DL — Gnostic Christian Bishop
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