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Define faith.

bbipolar
bbipolar
There was a discussion on love. Can it be measured etc. Define faith for you? What made you come to the conclusion that faith is real or not?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Are you talking about religious faith? We place faith in a lot of things. I have faith that the chair I'm sitting in is going to hold me up when I sit down. I sit without thinking whether or not the chair will be there. It's there. It's dependable. I have faith in it. My faith in God is the same. I don't doubt that he's there. He's held me up time and time again. He's always there. He's dependable. I don't have to wonder where he is. I can have faith in him because of my previous experience with him and with chairs...lol.
deleted_user
deleted_user
The only thing that I know about faith is that sometimes I have it and sometimes I don't.
bbipolar
bbipolar
Why do people always refer to God as "he". That a fact or what?
deleted_user
deleted_user
i used to have a lot of faith in God but i've grown to learn that it never helped me. i'm still in hell.
deleted_user
deleted_user
i have a problem in defining faith.Maybe it's the struggle between hoping and knowing.
I dunno.

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings

J.M Barrie ( Author of Peter Pan )
deleted_user
deleted_user
BB: God is a man! As we all know, MEN don't want to ask for directions... that's how BP'ers were formed. God lost the instruction book and kinda "winged it". Kinda sat back and said, "Well, that might work..."
deleted_user
deleted_user
Faith is belief--no matter what you believe in--Creator, God, Buddha, Mohammed, Allah, Fate ot the Stars. I have Faith that I will survive and no matter who my Supreme Being, I will survive because I believe.
dobiedots
dobiedots
YAY!! We should have a full fledged argument in about an hour!
Next -- Politicas - Is G.W. insane or just bipolar? Does he have faith?
deleted_user
deleted_user
my answer ...

http://youtube.com/profile?user=flightoflove
deleted_user
deleted_user
Faith is different than belief.

For me faith is knowing I can continue living.
MayB
MayB
I guess it's that feeling of being all alone and facing something really really bad and each time when I pray can something happen...help? Something does happen and help does arrive...
deleted_user
deleted_user
Illogical no provable belief in set of information that you still believe
deleted_user
deleted_user
i don't put faith in things i can't see that's why i am atheist
deleted_user
deleted_user
I believe 'faith' is having complete confidence in someone or the Creator. It's related to beings rather than anything in the inorganic world.
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so." --Mark Twain
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