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If you need to defend your faith, is your faith worth defending?
Should not a person's faith be strong enough that it never needs defending? Many people are under attack, and they stay strong in their lives without the need to defend their beliefs.
It seems to me that if your faith is truly strong, then you would let insults to the faith simply roll off your back.
Naturally, this does not apply to honest questions about one's faith. There is a difference between someone asking a legitimate question about the tenets of one's faith and a sneering jab at one's faith. Why do some people feel the need to focus on the latter instead of the former?
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
i believe that people defend their faith because if it can be disproved their whole belief system has to change and shift. People are creatures of comfort. If their belief system falls the comfort is lost.
Religion is a personal issue with many people. If you attack their religion, you attack them. you're right in one aspect however. If they're unsure of their faith they will defend it to prove to themselves that it is right and that they haven't wasted so many years in unbelief.
- LDS~Tenshi~Lv 51 decade ago
I and others on here tend to defend the faith, not because it needs defending, but because there may be someone around that is lurking and an answer might be just want they need to understand something about my faith. If we didn't there would be a lot more misunderstanding about my faith than there already is...LOL
Source(s): www.lds.org www.mormons.org - HighFlyDangerLv 41 decade ago
i agree with the LDS chick who answered first. Our faith is constantly attacked, and when people give questions they know the answers to and just want to get us angry, we defend/inform them, but not just for them but for the people who read it not knowing of our religion so that they don;t get crazy ideas in their heads like how were not Christians or we are a cult, two completely absurd things.
We defend to help others understand.
- easyericlifeLv 41 decade ago
I agree I don't defend my belief in gravity. It exists even though we don't understand the mechanism that causes it.
The same with my faith in Jesus.
