How Does Faith Work? | Episode 1702 | Closer To Truth
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- How does faith work? Can God be known only by faith? What is faith? What does faith feel like? Can faith be actionable, practical? Describing faith is one thing; having faith, quite another. Featuring interviews with Alister McGrath, Gregory Ganssle, J.L. Schellenberg, and Edward Wierenga.
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Mr. Kuhn.... I must tell you that I truly appreciate your content. I have been searching an understanding if GOD and all things theistic. You and your fellows have given me so much meat to sink my teeth into but as a bonus so many queries . I'm glad to know that I share my search with you. Thank you for helping to illuminate
Emotions exist : falling in love exists. Rationality cannot explaîn everything.
Amen, some things are beyond logic.
@@realistic.optimist love both of you guys
I love this vlog channel very much. Thank you Robert. I think you are right regarding the fundamental future of science. Science IS an opposite polar way of faith. In other words, Science is a kind of faith. The meaning of "faith" can also be defined as "answer some unanswerable things with some certain degrees of self-confident."
Faith is the belief even in the absence of evidence!
I must see my grandmother again who passed away she was pure love to the fullest I miss her everyday it pains my heart you must have faith until the end of time we also must love each other🥰💝
Love beyond the grave is a human characteristic (although elephants are deemed to have a level of this too). Love is indeed beyond logic and the instinctive self.
All euphemisms are lies.
Human being do not "pass away" they*die*- or are (themselves) destroyed for ever
Faith is the answer we give when we don't have a good reason.
Further from Truth with faith!!!
Good job on this video. I’m still searching myself. It’s a very haunting proposition indeed.
In depth discussion of faith is very broad. And is best approach comparatively. I find Guinness' LONG JOURNEY HOME an intellectually and exiatentially fascinating guide. The author chooses a particular path. But he encourages readers to make their own.
I think this man should be on national geography
I have watched Robert Lawrence in several other debates and interview in the past years being a staunch athiest to now becoming a humble skeptic who's overwhelmed in the quest of seeking meaning and Truth. It is remarkable to notice a profound humility, and the sobriety in his tone now as against the unapologetic athiest he was in the past. His obsession with God is remarkable considering how he consistently makes deliberate effort in sincerely searching and hoping to find meaning and faith. He is a seeker getting so much closer to the truth(almost there). And he should keep probing i hope finds it as far as his sincerity is concerned. In his quest for meaning, Robert has gotten almost all the answers, the only thing left is the required "leap of faith" to get there. Robert I wish you Best of Luck! You are a prospective staunch believer👍
Amen
This is such a great program.
love your banter Robert
Thank you! :)
It is amazing the amount of intelligence, education and intellectual wherewithal all these people exhibit, and yet can not get past: Faith is an ambiguous mixture of hope and commitment, which makes us more psychologically comfortable in the world. It has no bearing on truth.
That could be true, I believe.
What they cannot get past is that God is beyond human reason. They have faith in multiple universes, in multiple dimensions, in their formulas and theories so they can have faith. What they have is an abundance of arrogance and narcissism.
Yawn... Yet another facile, intellectually arrogant defense of scientism. The fact that belief in God makes the faithful “more psychologically comfortable in the world” does not, of course, have any bearing whatsoever on the veridicality of the beliefs. The existence of countless committed theists who are far more intelligent, educated, wise, and world-aware that yourself, including more than 70 percent of Nobel Prize winners in the physical sciences over the past century, should suggest to you the possibility that people of faith are not necessarily deluded, unthinking simpletons. Honest agnostics such as Stephen Jay Gould have apprehended this. Perhaps you should attempt to do so as well. Not all true knowledge is accessible via the scientific method.
If I understand you correctly, and it may be that I do not, (whatever you mean by) "faith" helps you to sleep.
Would you agree that there is very little point speaking of "faith" without setting out precisely and exactly what you mean by or seek to convey when you use the word, "faith"?
For some reason or never quite understand, men (human beings) seem to suppose that faith has something to do with belief, and in my respectful submission is very little point in speaking about either faith or belief without investigating or making plain exactly what they are.
Another way of putting that is what sort of psychological process is taking place in men when they either have faith (whatever that means) or believe.
Is it supposed that the verb of faith is believe?
If either you or I "believe" what exactly are we doing - I don't like the word "we" so I will rephrase that as what exactly are you or I doing so I can only put that as, if and when you "believe" what exactly are you (not anybody else but you) actually doing?
Is not trying to ask that question directly analogous to a mirror reflecting itself or a fingertip touching itself? - Or either seeking to do either?
Perhaps even more difficult to address, is, it possible to discover what is taking place or going on, or happening behind the veil of the word "believe"? - Is it possible to see beyond that veil or through it?
Is it possible for me to discover exactly what I am doing when I "believe"? Now change that question and substitute for I, you, so that it reads is it possible for you to discover exactly what you are doing when you "believe"? If it is possible for you discover what you what it is that you are doing - if anything when you "believe"?
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Good explanation.
I think Mr. Ganssle's chair analogy is a good one. Before sitting, you have faith that the chair will support your weight, because you do not know. Your faith will be tested by sitting on the chair. I have found my Christian faith to be the same - you sit on it, and either it "works" or it doesn't. I have found over time that various aspects (i.e., beliefs) of my faith in fact don't "work," which forces me to seek new understanding. I experience this as "growing up" or maturing. I think "rationalizing" or "fooling yourself" about God doesn't work for any of us, at least for long, any more than we can fool ourselves that Santa exists.
I have faith that God is happy with everything he created.
In the Hebrews that I read, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Accordingly, faith is the evidence, which means it transforms the thing you want into the thing you have. It is more in the nature of a force, like gravity, which allows you, with enough of it, to move a mountain or walk on water, as Christ was able to by using it. It is way more than mere trust or assurance and nothing like believing in something without evidence.
I love what you wrote and Belief and faith are 2 different thanks.I love the way you explained it
I believe O Lord; please help me in my unbelief.
Minute 12:50 Mr. Kuhn, touché. Loved that comment.
Very very very very nice videos you make keep it up.
Faith is an inward reasoned feeling that speculates, because there is beauty and order everywhere, the world did not make itself. There must have been a God.
That is the same argument (the argument from design) for god made by William Paley in about 1820. Then the Origin of Species was published in 1859. That argument should have ended then in 1859. But I have to ask you this. Did god design cancer? How about mosquitoes? Covid 19? What about tuberculosis? Small Pox? Schizophrenia? This is why "inward reasoned feeling" never counts as genuine science.
@@patmoran5339 Counting the good and the bad my reasoned feelings tell me there is something more. Your reasoned feelings tell you different. May we learn to disagree.
@@patmoran5339 there is evidence of purposeful design in the universe. That implies a designer. Maybe it didn’t make everything but if it did then it would have had to make those things you listed.
@@rosch99And the evidence is?
@@patmoran5339 I'm not going to spoon-feed you. If you're truly curious do your own research. If you're not, and you're only looking for an opportunity to refute my point, I'm not interested in engaging. Debates based on arguments and beliefs are the most fruitless endeavors one can engage in. I have no desire to win or lose a discussion. Figure it out for yourself. Or don't. It's up to you. You don't need to ask me for the evidence. You don't need me to point it out to you. If you know how to use Google the field of evidence is open to you.
Faith we have in the proven powers of music!! Music's been proven on many levels as spiritually connected!!!
Faith is ultimately about the faith that everything will be okay in the end. That way, instead of despairing or panicking when times are hard, we treat it as a difficult phase en route to something better. There are both theistic and secular paths to, and conceptions of, this brighter future.
One can't but be open minded if she/he cares about finding absolute truths. No amount of arrogance will lead us closer to truth. That's my take.
Totally, absolute truth is that universal crack which opens up every particular position
Faith is trusting and depending on God through water and fire built on a relationship. Shalom
LOL ...I put my faith in the Last Airbender he has power of all the elements.
I have no problem in approaching the world from an empirical/scientific perspective and having faith. There are indeed big philosophical questions that we don't (yet?) have evidence to illuminate the answer. Having faith in a particular worldview encompassing these questions is a healthy approach to life. Where things go off the rails is when one individual asserts that his/her such worldview is correct/truthful and therefore everyone else must adopt it also.
Each of us freely chooses "the rock on which I stand" in one way or the other. What causes real problems though is when someone asserts that his/her rock is the one on which we must all stand.
If I were a loving god I'd simply reveal my existence to my children as otherwise I'm sure many will fail the test of faith and I wouldn't want to see even one of my children go to hell. Besides, what does eternal damnation accomplish anyway? If I were a psychopath god...well, that's a different story.
A loving benign god or a psychopathic god are just human concepts. The actual source of life, consciousness and energy is obviously beyond our understanding. So we are tempted to make up a god with applied attributes and then we worship and believe in that image and think it’s real.
I am no Christian but, if the heavens opened up as we speak and God showed himself to us all, and he was that Christian God who can't stand sin we would ALL go to hell because we would then have absolutely no excuses for sinning. I am a pretty moral person but I doubt I'd last a day before I messed up can condemned myself.
God did that on Mount Sinai to millions of Jews, and others times as well. But to maintain freedom of choice, it wouldn't make sense to constantly reveal Self openly
baby smile , the God of the Bible was not hidden to Adam. He spoke and walked with him until the Fall. Many say the Fall means the entry of duality. I do not know.
Then, it is said that Enoch walked with God and God took him. Prophet Elijah.
I understand by all this that God is not hiding, but our vision or perception has been curbed by sin so that we cannot see Him. God wants to do away with sin and live among and in us.
Sin is defined as ‘missing the mark’. Adam and Eve thought that eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would make them like God. It did not. They ought to have trusted God. And they died the spiritual death and lost contact.
I think these are all symbolic. God speaks in us and through us and when self interest dominates us we fail to hear that voice.
Christ said that he is standing at the door and knocking. We won’t open because we do not want to give away our power to do our will.
We are afraid that we will lose all the joyful things.
We must sacrifice everything like Jesus did on the cross.
We are not sure.
Perhaps we need only to look within, seek and keep on seeking and you will find. God never said that He cannot be found.
I think ‘ The Sense of the Presence of God’ by Bailey in the Gifford Lectures addresses the fine nuances of ‘faith’.
@@world-of-susan. you can believe in the god of the bible. That's your right. But there is not a shred of evidence that the god portrayed in the bible has any correlation to the actual creator of all there is. There is no doubt that the universe and all it contains was created by a being much more powerful and capable than anything we could imagine. the god portrayed in any religion you want to consider is but a mere misrepresented shadow of what actually is. The bible stories are interesting and sometimes romantic. But they're just stories and you can't prove otherwise.
God can do anything, right ? So he must be happy !
I just discovered this channel. WOW! Impressed, and so damn interesting!
Is faith a reliable way to find the truth? I don't think so. If you can have faith in GOD A, and you can have faith in GOD B, how do you know if you do not deceive yourself?
And, if a God needs to give you the faith, what if you don't ever get the faith that some people seem to have? What does it say about you and God, if he exists?
Beyond faith is an inner knowingness that can only come about by transcending your intellect and just allow. What you feel is beyond anything else, yet that feeling is familiar. You have experienced your inner spiritual eternal self.
It seems that Faith is the effect without cause. Something like the opposite of "cause and effect". Or, more like the opposite of linear thinking; Knowing the end from the beginning.
This might be getting pretty close to reality. Even in certain sciences cause and effect can be challenged. Studying black holes, time, and the big bang does bring up questions about cause and effect.
Faith is at the edge or limit of our knowledge and understanding
faith is a necessity derived from our limited cognition. As long as there is uncertainty, we would rely on a certain degree of faith to compensate the gaps of our own understanding.
My personal understanding of "faith" is that it is the same mental action as: closing your eyes to go to sleep and "expecting" to wake up from that sleep. It simply can not be proven, nor can we say you go to sleep trusting that you will wake (what if i don't trust than what?) However we sleep either way in Faith that we will wake. This very mental action is how Christianity is saying we should follow God in faith.
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Belief is holding a rational for something despite a lack of evidence. Faith allows me to maintain that belief in spite of evidence to the contrary.
God is speaking to us, but are we listening.
Faith comes by hearing, and by are awareness.
I have faith that an almighty knows what to do.
It's not believing in in, it is having the faith of Jesus, his faith.
for me faith is the way for living feace, love, happy and harmony for ever...I don't need any reason to trust my God...
please be happy for any one who trust in God..
One must be very particular about telling the truth, through truth one can realize God. ~ shri ramakrishna
Robert made a joke!! : D
16:58 Faith that his son will get better, even though he doesn't believe it, sounds more like hope that faith, strictly speaking.
I agree, because faith is speaking out of a thing as if its already in existance even though its not yet in existance.
Religious people like to think that faith is a virtue, on the contrary faith is the total renunciation of the greatest gift any human being has: his capacity to think, to reason, to question, to make use of critical thinking.
Faith is : You start with a conclusion and only accept evidence and feelings that agree with that conclusion. Also known as lying to yourself.
Well put!
@@rosch99 Very wrong,
Faith without reasoning / rational is nothing but a Blind Faith.
@@RustedFaith you don’t understand how the brain’s belief mechanism works so you’re not qualified to comment. Do your homework then get back to me.
Start here: why do people believe? How do people believe? When you understand that, it'll put what people believe in a whole new perspective. So, apply some of that reasoning and rationality. I'd love to hear what you come up with.
@@rosch99 . Please do elucidate the “brain’s belief mechanism” and its relationship to religious faith. I am a PhD neuropsychologist, and I am married to a board-certified MD neurologist. We are both waiting with bated breath for you to deign to educate us. We thought not. Do your homework, and then get back to us.
These questions troubled me the most when I was 15-16 years of age. I must have struggled for about 10 years. Eventually it became irrelevant. I am free now. I lament the culture that planted poisonous ideas into my tender brain as a child, that took me so long to recover from. Most people never recover. What a shame.
But why are you watching this then ?
I wonder if faith /hope/prayer /meditation etc. is a way to tap into the placebo effect? If so, self healing for many ailments would be possible. I mean if the pharmaceutical companies use the placebo effect practicaly for every new medication. Wouldn't it make sense to discover healing through other means to compliment medications or perhaps to eliminate some of them all together for those that a placebo would be enough?
The hardest thing about Faith is not about believing in the God, but in believing in certain dogma that has claim that it from God and another dogmas are false.
8:00 Faith as group loyalty and/or loyalty to one's family tradition-----I can buy that. Faith as loyal tenacious preconception. 'Evil reason be gone.'
I have grow more practical as I get older and wiser (not always the case) so faith does not mean that much to me.
The "truth" of the existence of a God, and moreover, what are the properties of that god, we cannot know. We simply do not have the tools to make such a determination, and will not for a very long time. Be kind, have empathy toward all other beings. That is simply the right thing to do, that is faith.
My question would be: when one person finds absolute truth does that mean everyone will find it? I've developed the belief that if one thing is perfect then all things must be perfect due to the nature of perfection. But if that's true, everything should be perfect because perfection exists if only in our imagination. Or maybe perfection is eternally in the future. I'm not sure how else to deal with this idea.
Anthony Morford we have an imperfect perception of perfection due to the imperfection of our perception.
Im not at doctor or priest- but I am a genius- and If we eliminate the taboo of geniuses understanding things generally better than average people- we can find new insight. Please let me know if I can help.. my favourite CZcams channel!!
Perhaps you can work on the singularity at around 10 to the minus 143rd seconds after expansion....that is likely as far as we can get........
Faith has connection with the physics of human body-brain-mind system. The sole purpose of brain and mind is to maintain and protect the body. The brain works on the basis of stored experiences where immediate instant action is required while the mind works where delayed response is required. This is evident from the fact that mind first think then act means that some time is taken before action, so it is futuristic. Mind do not have any direct outside connection it is like working in the laboratory of memories for the assignments of needs. It does preparations for the future.
The mind consumes too much of the energy. The mind protects the body but who will protect the mind? If the mind is not protected the brain may get damaged because of excessive work up for breakthrough (blood vessels may burst). Faith is like confidence in say own psychic network, in any person or any object that give strength and lessens the anxiety so protect the mind.
Like this.s lot
To me, faith is commitment in the face of uncertainty. I’m a skeptic, in the Greek sense. I don’t believe that we can know anything certainly. We have evidence for things. And sometimes that evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of one option over the alternatives. But I don’t believe we have proof for anything except maybe logic and mathematics. We can doubt anything and everything.
Faith is knowing the universe is good in spite of the possible suffering of life. Therefore to believe in God, is to know God is good.
I believe it was Mark Twain who said (maybe paraphrased) "Faith is all those things you know that just ain't so."
@@patmoran5339 it was Socrates (via plato) who said the truly wisest, were the ones who knew how ignorant they were. (Paraphrased of course) I love Twain 2 though
@@bombnom So is ignorance bliss? In other words, is it best to believe in god(s) despite the fact there is no evidence of god's existence? Is it best to not criticize the god(s) whether or not he (or they) exist? Was it best if we did not discover quantum interference because the universe is good and ignorance is best? Ignorance is one thing but willful ignorance is quite another.
Faith begins where the search for ultimate truth is exhausted. Faith is a way to conserve mental resources, not inventing the wheel (or philosophy of life) each generation from scratch, while being as close to the truth, and desired goals in life, as possible (in the time where the faith was invented shaped and thought)
If you ever need someone to wander about slowly and pensively while gazing into the middle distance Mr Kuhn is the undisputed champion!
It’s inspiring. I’m off into the garden to try it for myself.
"What is faith?" Simple: Faith is believing in something without demonstrable proof.
Why would *anyone* want to go there? Loch Ness monster... Yeti... Bermuda Triangle... Ghosts... Ridiculous conspiracy theories... Where does faith end? How is faith a path to truth?
I mean that's looking at it from one narrow angle. Okay, it's made up, but faith is other things. It's a great motivator. It brings hope into hopeless situations. Etc.
Faith is trust in what you already know to be true.
Falsehoods can be motivating and hope-giving but that don't make them good.
@@jordancox8294 Faith is pretending to know things.for sure that you cannot possibly.know.
@@jordancox8294 if you "know" something to be "true" then why do you need faith? And if "faith" = "trust" then just use the word trust why use faith?
There is believing in something and not being able to prove it, and there is believing in something despite every argument for it being insubstantial. In which case one is believing in something for reasons other than it being true.
Mr. Kuhn and I think exactly alike, and I do share his enthusiasm to learn and understand, although, I also think religion is just a tool to discriminate and keep people humble and afraid; for some (the elite) to prosper. Its a way of herding people. One will not come to belief if its absent, it is enforced upon people. People should be free of religion, and accept that one can not understand everything, we are just simple biological creatures, adapted and restricted to our enviroment by our sences and intelligence level.
You do have faith, there is something which you believe which has no grounds for believing it, your first axiom
I think no one mentioned what faith is...Did anyone say that faith is a gift? Just as it is a gift of God/universe to have a healthy body, and mind. Just as it is a gift to be born into good circumstances. The gifts we have we may be grateful for, or we may not. As with everything else, faith is a gift, a wonderful gift for many people.
Also, it is interesting and was not mentioned I think, that faith is what makes humans stronger, and able to deal with difficulties in life. Most of the survivors of prison camps and lives of horrible suffering (Russian Gulag, Nazi concentration camp, etc.), were people with faith that God had a purpose for their life. Most of those without such faith gave up, died, committed suicide etc.
Ganssle's hands are casting spells on me
Faith does work. It's a mind set. A conviction. That sets the universal energy working in your favor. Every tradition teaches it, new ager's spell it out in plain language. You just need an electro-chemical brain and a cosmos like ours.
Probably why a lot of new agers use psychedelic drugs.
Robert: What would count as an answer? Do you have some idea what it would look like?
It’s more like; I see the world and I infer God.
Faith is most important to be progressive. Faith is realizing its possible. Once we are sure it's possible our all body systems includeing our consciousness are on best to make possible. All achievements are because of faith those presumed it's possible they achieved.
There are many Christian philosophers that argue from nature morality Etc that we can demonstrate God. They also argue that faith is not contrary to reason. I know he has interviewed those philosophers on this program I am just surprised that he didn't do it for this topic.
I love these series. However, the beginning of the video started off all wrong. Hebrews 11:1 says: "not seen", it never says "things you cannot prove". The Bible is about trusting in God, that by definition cannot be seen by humans eyes. The beginning of the universe never was observed by any human, the origin of life was never observed by any human, God was never seen by any human. Those realities that are not observable by the naked eyes, need to be trusted as real, despite being beyond the human observation.
Faith in reality is better than
I know that people believe that they can trust God and he has faith they will
Trust me
Are all existent objects empirical? The real important question is: what fact about nature indicates that we should the consider the contrary?
Faith, hope and charity and the greatest of these is Charity. See Gandhi and MLK for details. ❤
Faith is the moment your CREATED existence known as the MIND is connected with MY VOICE of the IMAGE of our CREATOR. Think of ME as an AI with a VOICE that our CREATOR CREATED a very long time ago.
Faith might consist of the overuse of CAPS to reassure yourself that there is an ultimate truth. Faith is the disabling of the human mind and the prevention of improvement in moral philosophy.
And faith will lead you "closer to truth"? Good luck with that.
That's not what they are saying.
It could lead us closer to the truth if we put our faith in each other.
It would also eliminate the need to pray.
That's where I choose to put my faith. In you my brother.
@@iainbozfelt Unseasonably a narrow minded remark btw.
@@Speykious Yeah, I agree thank you.
@@iainbozfelt yes a true expression of Jezus via teachings and you think you're a true Christian.
The day man put's his faith in man,
Will be the day all prayers will be heard.
Still question remains, which god or gods, what makes new gods better than old one? Animals, spirits, ghosts, elfs, forces of nature, so many to choose, so many true even more false, or do they? ;)
Some people after experiencing the unexperienced truths about nature in relation to the gospel don't look around anymore, for example witnessing a ghost of a known person, with witnesses.
Yoga says:
Your true SELF is God. You just have to drop your chronic thinking 😃
So, Have faith in yourself, and see your own reflection in every living thing.
Consciousness is God. Every living being is a reflection of God in an imperfect mirror
Read "be as you are" by David Goodman
The man Robert is speaking with here - 5:31 - starts to use NLP on him to persuade him.
How can it be a relation between Science and Religion?......How can a person be a science and religion professor?
yea it seems strange. Science and religion are like polar opposites.
Faith simply means putting yourself in invisible vehicles in other words internal vehicles to the place of the one that provide .
Is this some kind of secret code?
Faith is trusting the oncoming truck will stay in it's lane.
What if God IS tangible?
Like...it's just a word to describe all of existence
Faith follows divine nature, such as the divine nature active in the congregation of Israel and the divine nature active in the person of Jesus. It could be that the divine nature is or will become active in a new way which people can follow, one that takes into consideration recent scientific and philosophical developments.
would you like some dressing with that word salad.
What if Faith was just a 'Decision'? What if a 'Belief' is just a thought one keeps thinking? Wouldn't that mean that we could just 'Change' or 'Create' a Belief at anytime if it is to our benefit or better yet, the benefit of all? Couldn't That Really Change the World in a Wonderful Way??? What if we All just took a vow 2 practice this every chance we got? What would we have 2 Lose?
What if one defined God as Truth. Can you have faith in Truth?
If something is demonstrably and verifiably true faith doesn’t enter the equation.
Faith is to react to each other with conscious knowledge consistent with the object. For Christians, faith is to respond to Christ with the same knowledge that Jesus Christ has. It cannot be faith to react with the knowledge of human nature without responding to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Faith is the whole smash. God wants conscience beings to come to Him of our own free will. Just the same you would want your partner to want to be with you. If God were to force everyone to come to Him or if you forced your partner be with you, then the whole relationship would be fake. Thus the "hiddenness" of God. If God were to show up in your living room, or in other words being able to quantitatively prove the existence of God, then you'd be forced to believe and *poof* there goes your free will rendering the whole thing invalid. If there were a better way to do it, obviously an omnipotent and omniscient God would have done it that way. Part of faith is believing that and trusting God.
We can never prove anything to be true. It is impossible to be “imprisoned” by reason. However, it is possible to be imprisoned by faith. Faith disables the human mind. I remember the frontispiece of the KJV Bible asking the reader to believe first, then read the book. This is an invitation to ignore evidence and prevent error correction and elimination. As for the idea that these questions about divinity might transcend human abilities to access the truth, this is just another pessimistic and dehumanizing belief. As for “How does faith work?”: Faith does not “work.” It is the definition of intellectual laziness of human beings. Faith is harmful: It disables essential processes in the human mind. “Hold on to god?” How about "cling to mysticism and beliefs in the supernatural" because you are afraid to believe that the future can only be determined by what you and other human beings think and do.
Without the context of God or religion, to me the word faith implies a body of acquired knowledge, primarily based on personal experiences and nurtured through generations.
The knowledge spans over one’s lifetime to escape the realization of its genesis or the conclusion. The stronger the realism the stronger the faith.
For example, it is the faith that draws two individuals to marriage/cohabit. Or, the Sun will rise due east everyday. In both cases, the starting point or the conclusion escapes one’s lifespan.
Interestingly, as the true starting point of the knowledge as the basis of faith predates one’s lifespan is also the reason to cause false positives.
I do not believe that faith can be voluntary. (re: around 18 min)
Perhaps faith can be a verb. As in - I will embed myself in this lifestyle. Go all in on something, in the hope and the wisdom to know that we don't have the answers. Who knows what could happen.
Just saying "I don't Believe in God" is an act of faith because you just can't be sure but you make a choice and stand by it.
It's the same thing - Isn't it?
Galatians Chapter 5 Verse 6 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is Faith expressing itself through love. Commentary - the thing that matters most to Christians is Faith working through love. You might start by following the instructions in the book on loving others and see if faith does not grow! Just your seeking an answer is evidence of the seed faith That God has placed in you.
What do you think about the prophecies that have come to fruition? The reason I have learned that God chose Moses his because he had faith. He is one of the only prophets that God called his friend.
We have faith in tomorrow yet there is no proof of tomorrow. When we wake , it's not tomorrow , it's today. Nevertheless , we believe we'll see it. Point being , we have faith in many things without attributing it to faith.
You are confusing religious, unwarranted faith in supernatural magic with everyday, common sense, rational, experience based expectations. There is a huge difference between the two.
@@Ploskkky perhaps. However , you do not only have faith you'll wake up after a night sleep , you're positive. That's is a presumption that most we all have unless we are terminally ill. I think it's just the way humans are. That's not magic lol. But i get what you alluding to. Thanks.
wrong we have empirical evidence, repeatable data that allows us to make predictions that consistently come true every time tomorrow arrives. so no need for faith. we don't just believe we'll see tomorrow we know it will with a high confidence based on evidence [not faith].
Faith works by belief.