You have been posting some interesting answers!
...because once one truly finds God an feels his presence than its really not faith anymore you know he excist... after said experince are faith isnt about weather or not God excist or not but faith in what God is gonna do.... like if your in a situation an you need Gods help then you just have to have faith tbat he will take care of it.
So you are saying that once you have evidence about his existence, then you know that and you don't need faith anymore...
But to think you are feeling him you need to be convinced that he exists. To me it is like you want to feel god, such an amazing experience, and then you influence yourself to feel it. Mind can do that.
Feeling god isn't an evidence to believe it, because you need to have faith that god exists in the first place. Some people say they feel Allah, that doesn't mean that allah exists.
Except I don't know anyone that believes like that. You want evidence for things that verify the Bible, look up "The Case for Christ" and "More than a Capenter." There's more than enough evidence to believe the Bible, but evidence has NEVER been the issue for someone believing, as you're also see in both of those cases I mentioned. They're both made by ex-atheists.
Most of the people i know that believe doesn't mind about backing up their beliefs with evidence, or trying to prove them. They just believe them because they are written on the bible.
John 20:29
Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
Maybe Jesus existed, it is very possible. The bible also has provable historical facts. BUT it also claims some unprovable and even impossible facts.
That some parts of the bible seem to be true, it doesn't mean that everything in it is true. Neither that it is the word of god!
Faith is yes Belief in sonmething and or someone. Faith no matter what has to have an Object
Faith is void with no object.
Such as I can have Faith (belief) in swallowing and live. swallowing is my object here. So we swallow food and live yes?
But wait a minute I could swallow poison and die yes?
Therefore Faith has to have an object that is true, perfect and correct right? Because I just showed you that we can have Faith in, yet the most important is what is ones Faith in?
Now I can have Faith in my Wife, my friend, my Pastor, my Church I go to, and many other things even in myself, in this world right?
Have you found anyone here on this earth or anything on this earth that you can trust (have Faith in) 100% of the time, this includes yourself. Can we be decieve and even decieve ourselves by ourselves and or others?
So what or who do you choose today to have Faith in? Do you breath air and live? Do you see the air you breath? Nor do we see God in the flesh as once was, but now no more for we today by God in the Spirit of God are born again by God through the resurrected Christ, today in reception of the Holy Ghost by the Spirit not the flesh.
Hope this amswers what you are seeking to know, because when the rubber hits the road, God just love you!!!!!!!!!!!! waiitng for you to respond
I think it's worth to make a distinction here.
To have faith in someone, or to have faith in humanity or things like that, means hope in that those things are going to go well.
I can have faith, or confidence on the things I believe because I have reasons to believe them, one cannot be 100% sure. Maybe you get on a bus having faith in that the bus driver is competent, but it turns out that he isn't. There's reasons to have confidence in that everything is going to be ok, every other time you got in a bus nothing bad happended. Because it is an inductive reasoning "every bus is safe because I have been safe in every bus" it may be false. Anyways, if there's somehing that defies my beliefs I could change them.
So what or who do you choose today to have Faith in? Do you breath air and live? Do you see the air you breath?
I choose to believe the thing i have evidence to believe in, like the air I breathe, like my body is made of innumerable and minuscule units called cells, that the universe I live in is far more enormous and old that what I can imagine. None of these things I can see directly, but there is plenty of evidence that supports them. Te belief is not important, what is important is the fundaments of the belief.
Nor do we see God in the flesh as once was, but now no more for we today by God in the Spirit of God are born again by God through the resurrected Christ, today in reception of the Holy Ghost by the Spirit not the flesh.
I don't really see evidence for that
Can we be decieve and even decieve ourselves by ourselves and or others?
I think that the easiest person to deceive is oneself. And it is even easier when we deliberatelly chose to believe in things with little evidence. And when we prohibit the doubt and citical thinking.
Christianity is not about the information one can good, even though the info can be good. It is about accepting Jesus into one's heart and allowing him to lead one's life and not oneself.
What happens if the bible isn't the word of god, but the writtings of men who needed answers and a frame to guide their lifes.
Then you will be renouncing to your freedom, to your reason, to your curiosity (looking for the truth). Because you think you don't need those. you think you already have the answers, the truth, the purposse of your life.
The most important think is to believe, but that may make you a slave of the lie. Chaining your mind
What do you think faith is? And how do you define knowledge (in your own words)?
Faith as I see it is a mentallity with the purposse of believe in a certain thing. It doesnt' need evidence that support the belief, what is important is the belief itself and whatever happens, you can't stop believing in that dogma. Then you become a slave who resign to critical thinking.
It is the arrogant thinking that you can have truth just by believing or by revelation
You can have faith in something that is a lie, but you couldn't free yourself from it. No matter how much evidence or reasons ar presented againts the belief. Because you are now dependant of the belief.
In order to sustain the belief it doesn't matter to deny scientific facts, or even to make you feel comfortable in ignorance
In opposition with faith, knowledge are the sets of beliefs we build througout our lifes, those beliefs emanate from reallity, and because of that they are not absolute truths. Changing our beliefs accordingly to the evidence of reallity is called
learning.
Faith isn't a virtue, but a vice. It leads to a close mind