LaDamaX · 13 answers · 1y
How do define or understand faith to be?
How do define or understand faith to be?
Faith is what I have in myself when I decide to carry 140lbs of laundry in one harrowing dash instead of just making two trips
I best describe it has a safety blanket for some. I don't mean it as an insult. Some ppl need that. It gives them purpose, makes them better ppl and gives them comfort in dark moments. It's not for me but I have no issues with others that find good in it🙂
A lot of people who aren't religious like to think of faith as "belief without evidence" or "belief without reason," but I think faith is a lot more nuanced than that. Religious people take the original concept of faith and abuse it by claiming it's their means of knowing the Bible or the Koran or whatever is true, that's why non-religious people think of faith that way. My definition of faith is close to 🌺 AnayaOhNo's, "Having hope and belief in a positive outcome or reality through unknown means?", but with the addition that the source of this hope and belief doesn't necessarily have to be arbitrary or wishful thinking. It could come from experience--many, many lifetimes, eons of experience, perhaps--that we remember on a soul level but don't have access to the specifics of on an egoic/brainal level.
When you have no faith that your life is real and not a boring tale you end with a boring tale, and I would not want this. So I must have faith that my life is real because without there is nothing, no love, no life, no joy, no adventure, no secret, no meaning.
I used to think of it as being 'belief without evidence' but then I've been thinking, what is evidence anyway? People see what they wanna see, the 'evidence' can come from within...like with 'intelligent design', you're speaking with somebody about it and they say 'look around you, the evidence is everywhere!' I guess faith just boils down to belief - the evidence comes out of the belief
It's meaningless without conditions. And mostly it means pulling something together..... opposite of the big bang
Having hope and belief in a positive outcome or reality through unknown means?
Tbh I'm clueless and hope someone else on here has a better answer
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