Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What is faith”, Leave a Reply below!
Faith is when you give up your will to think for yourself and allow someone or something else govern your thoughts, actions, overall life.
Faith is a determination to believe something whether or not it is so.
Faith, to me, is believing in the unknown, realizing we may never truly understand all there is to this life, but having faith that something is keeping this universe together, my faith is in that ‘something’. I feel ‘that something’ in my life everyday, it watches over me and gives me direction, it keeps me in the gravitational pull of the universe. I feel it and have faith in it………..I do not know what it is, but it is real.
“Faith is an act of the intellect assenting to divine truth under the dominion of the will as moved by God’s Grace.” -St. Thomas Aquinas
Faith & Fact must be considered together.
Faith in the religious sense says believe what, I, who am not to be questioned because I represent a god of some sort who will torture you for all eternity if you dare to doubt my divinely inspired authority.
A Fact is presented with evidence that you can examine and decide for yourself if the evidence is convincing enough for you to accept it as true. There is no “sin” in disbelieving that it is true, only a recognition by discerning people that you are willfully ignorant if you value authoritative statements above solid evidence as your criteria for determining what is true.
Faith is the believing in ones strong convictions toward the seen or unseen.
TO SAY FAITH IS TO SAY BELIEVE. TO SAY BELIEVE YOU ARE SAYING YOU DO NOT KNOW, FOR ONCE YOU KNOW IT IS NO LONGER A FAITH…..IT IS KNOWLEDGE.
I HAVE ALL OF YOUR ANSWERS TO MAKE IT KNOWLEDGE IF YOU WILL WRITE ME. I AM A SCIENTIST. AND I KNOW. IT YOU WANT THE REAL TRUTH WRITE ME. THE REASON YOU DON’T KNOW IS THAT THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD HAVE MADE THE INFORMATION TOP SECRET. I FACED DEATH FOR THE ANSWERS….ESPECIALLY TO REVEAL TO MY FELLOW MAN.
GOD WAS DISCOVERED IN TWO WAYS …ONCE IN THE LATE 1940′S AND AGAIN IN 1998
Faith is complete acceptance of one’s own understanding. Hope is relying on what one understands to be true, with some doubt still present. Fact is a perception that what you know to be true, is true. Facts can still be false.
Faith is the ability to “know” something without proof.
Well, as with the question of “doubt”, I think we’re simply playing with semantics here, and I really don’t think the question is useful or interesting. First look in a dictionary, then a thesaurus.
The only thing I can say here is: faith is your present understanding with regard to (x). It doesn’t say anything about the truth or falsehood of (x), just your relationship to (x).
Faith is the evidence of mankind despair.
Faith is belief that persists undoubted or in spite of reasonable doubt.
As Mark Twain said, ‘Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.’
Faith is belief in spite of, or in the teeth of evidence.
Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for , the evident demonstration of realities though not yet seen.
Faith is acting upon the expectation of the improbable. It can be based in hope or fear, displayed in anger or compassion, and result in peace or terror. Faith invites experiences that strengthen and weaken different beliefs. Faith can close the mind to certain types of evidence while opening it to existential realities derived from personal discoveries.
Faith is what you thought to have within you!!!
A feeling which is generated by knowing something is inline with my expectations.
Faith is blindly believing something explicitly lacking or in spite of proof.
Belief without proof. As opposed to skepticism, which is the questioning of belief. One claims ultimate truth without basis while the other seeks to determine the truth in a particular instance.
the faith in god is what force me to live…the feeling that someone is watching all my deeds ..whenever i go wrong someone watches..for me faith is not a thing but a person…not something but someone….not a dream but a reality…
faith is the strong feeling that gives the strength to overcome all the difficulty…sometimes faith may seem not logical…believing in something not seen…not felt….but faith is like that only…it should not be heard..it must be experienced
faith is the amount of which you believe in something, usually something that cannot be proven and which you still believe. just as the pope has great faith in Christianity, i have faith in the ground