Faith is...

Originally posted by whodey
Indeed!! It almost seems to good to be true.

Indeed, especially when the Bible doesn't actually mention a specific mountain.

Originally posted by whodey
But at the same time would you say that such faith is "blind"? Is it devoid of reason?

No, I wouldn't say it's devoid of reason.

After all, it does stand to reason that there are things out there that human beings cannot understand and therefore that there may be things that are true but cannot be proven to a human being's satisfaction.

Originally posted by sh76
No, I wouldn't say it's devoid of reason.

After all, it does stand to reason that there are things out there that human beings cannot understand and therefore that there may be things that are true but cannot be proven to a human being's satisfaction.

"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. " - Wittgenstein

Translation: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. " - Wittgenstein

Translation: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

"Le coeur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point."
(The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.)

Blaise Pascal

a waste of time. fear is your only god.

Originally posted by FMF
Faith is psychological. Morality is a lubricant for human interaction.

Scotch is the lubricant for human interaction

Faith is helpful to many But isn't necessary for either an ethical life or happiness.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
I like this definition!

Abandonment, or non-reason if reason never was there before.

faith is often confused with hope.

reason and hope are never at odds.

( it is, yes, a burden, to be so smart )

Originally posted by FabianFnas
Hearing things that doesn't exist is called tinnitus.
I don't hear any dogs.

Tinnitus tends to be a perceived as a fairly steady whine or ringing noise.

Hearing non-existent dogs is more in the category of an auditory hallucination.

Originally posted by spruce112358
Tinnitus tends to be a perceived as a fairly steady whine or ringing noise.

FMF finally has a medical dictionary definition....schweet....!

Originally posted by FMF
Faith is psychological. Morality is a lubricant for human interaction.

yikes...!.......logical reasons that explain why chaste women often so easily succumb to seduction...?!

Originally posted by sh76
A) morally praiseworthy

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Discuss

Absolutely. Faith is wholly morally praiseworthy.

In the course of human history it has often been the case that people imbued with a sense of injustice to their fellow human being, as a consequence of their belief in a higher realm, have gone onto righting wrongs only because their faith convicted them to to so.

When your faith leads you into a belief system where 'all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory' and 'we are saved by grace that none should boast' its impossible to then with clear conscience uphold a view of privilege that entitles one human being over the other. If our faith leads us to the conclusion that we all equally need salvation, and that no one is greater than the Head of the Christian Church (Christ) who himself came as a servant, then faith becomes a most brilliant facilitator of social leveling and social equity and this should be characterized as being totally morally praise worthy.