Really, why faith? What does faith mean (not just dictionary definition)? What is faith? Why is there faith? What are the benefits of faith? Why can god not exist without faith (as asked by a previous question)?
Seriously folks, I'm just trying to wrap my brain around the faith thing. Don't take offense by the question.
MT: I understand you're making a generalization, and that's fine... BUT we can all see from space that the Earth is round. No scientist will refute that.
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Faith is a necessary aspect of human society. It is akin to hope and/or love. I have faith that my friends have got my back, I have faith that my husband is a good man, I have faith that my government is doing the best it can for me.....wait, what did i just say?!? :)
Anyway, the problem (if you wanna call it that) is when people start putting faith in the supernatural. Things start getting messy then.
Even Haazer
First of all, faith may be more important then we may ever imagine. I mean I can't know what's in God's mind only if He discovers me. So the true reason faith is so seriously demanded from as, may be other then that we assume.
Some may say it's just manipulation method. It seams so at first glimpse.
But... if we take the time to think about it then we may come to realize that faith stands at the base of learning. For instance we believe earth is rounded because our sources (scientists) told us.
Faith is needed for a normal life also. Example: when walking, you believe earth will not collapse under your feet. You believe that so strongly you even don't bother questioning this. So faith is involved in the learning process and we use it in our daily life whether we are religious or not.
Further more, if God will do something great for you (yet He already does) and you don't believe God did it, who you will believe did it? Don't you think God will feel abandoned if you thank others or things for what He does? And you and I would do the same.
Here are just some reason faith is important, there for sure are more. What about you find them?
Josias B
Faith isn't that complicated actually. Many Protestants make it sound that way. When you say to your friend "I have faith in you", that is the same faith Scripture talks about men needing to have in God.
Think for a second of what the Scriptures claim - that you must work out your salvation with fear and trembling before God, that faith without works is dead, that we are growing into the likeness of Christ. None of this is possible if you do not trust God to lead you. Without trust, there can be no obedience. Without obedience there can be no progress. Without progress, one cannot become Christ-like.
So, the whole faith alone argument; that is a terrible lie. You need faith to conquer sin, but even if you believe in God, trust in Him, have faith in Him, if you do not cooperate with Him nothing will ever happen. First, you trust that God can and will help you, then you obey. Faith and works, they work hand in hand.
However, God does exist without our faith, to clear that up. God existed before us, we are his creation, He is not our creation. He does not need us in order to go on living, we need Him to go on living. It is the reverse of what you have been told. Despite what each person believes relative to another, there is one Truth that will impose itself on everyone and everything, despite what they think or believe to be true. Just because this truth hasn't yet revealed itself in plain sight before all doesn't take away from the ultimate reality of its existence, which remains independent from the creation.
So why faith? We need it in order to achieve obedience to God so that we may begin the process of defeating our sins and becoming Holy as we once were. The benefits of faith are the defeat of death through the conquering of sin (since death entered the world through sin). Faith exists so that we may be rescued from eternal enslavement to the passions.
lady
faith isnot seprated from god,faith is to beleive that there is one god who created the world,to believe in his prophets,his books ,his angels and the judgment day
simply we cannot believe in god wizout faith,we need to feel that there is a superior power and this power is the faith,the faith that there always a lord that will never let u down and will help u whenever u need his help,will always care for u even more than u care for urself,
if there is no faith that there is a lord who will punish u when u disobey him( he will forgive u whenevr u ask for his forgivness) and will reward u whenever u will obey him then this world will be a jungle which full of animals that have no rules or limits,our love and fear from god which are represented in faith is the thing which make us go on for best life and the best hereafter in the heaven.
deacon
Hebrews 11:1-3 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
Hebrews 11
1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Ephesians 2:7-9 (in Context) Ephesians 2 (Whole Chapter)