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What would someone having faith in God look like?

The opposite would be someone looking for evidence. Someone looking for a sign of power.

Update:

Clarification: Faith dose come along with a certain amount of evidence. It seems that the less evidence we require to believe God the more pleasing it is to him. It is like electrical wire; in that the greater number of gauge wire you want (as the number goes up) the smaller the actual wire is and so If you require a lot of evidence for God your faith is small. If you only require a little evidence your faith is great.

Reference:

Luke 7:9 (English Standard Version)

When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”

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  • Arnie
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    When asked to describe my thoughts on GOD and Religion my train of thought led me right to gravity. . .

    You can’t see gravity, You can’t taste it, I just know one thing for certain, that it exists.

    The mystery's of faith an GOD are beyond human comprehension

    Faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence.

    I feel bad that if someone does not have faith they would want others to agree with them!

    How can the universe create itself out of nothingness? Given the fact that the universe began to exist, it must have had a “cause” that originated it.Doesn't it make more sense to assume the existence of a Creation. The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that GOD came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, GOD is not in the category of things that are created or caused. GOD is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.

    We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing being is what we call GOD ,GOD is the un-caused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.

    The universe requires a cause because it had a beginning, GOD unlike the universe, had no beginning, so he doesn’t need a cause. Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has much experimental support, shows that time is linked to matter and space. So time itself would have begun along with matter and space. Since GOD is the creator of the whole universe, he is the creator of time. Therefore He is not limited by the time dimension He created..@

    Life without GOD is like an un- sharpened pencil it has no point..

    You can't see the wind, but you know it is there because you can see what the wind is doing. You can know that the wind is there because you can feel it.GOD is like the wind, you can't see him

  • 7 years ago

    Any faith that does not come with evidence is blind. Blind faith has set every religion back centuries. Any God that requires ignorance to be a God is not the true God, Creator of the universes. The quote you give concerns a Roman Centurian that had faith based on the evidence that Jesus had healed many and even broght the dead to life. This was not blind faith.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Jesus told us how we can identify true Christians, those having faith. It would not be so much their outward appearance, but more importantly their inner qualities. At John 13:34, 35 he said: I am giving YOU a new commandment, that YOU love one another; just as I have loved YOU, that YOU also love one another.  By this all will know that YOU are my disciples, if YOU have love among yourselves. The true religion teaches and practices unselfish love. Such love is not just spoken about in sermons. It actually draws together in genuine brotherhood people of all races, all economic groups, all languages, all nations. (Revelation 7:9, 10) It sets true Christians apart from the world around them.

    Source(s): Watchtower Journal
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