Faith: confident belief or trust in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
Faith is also a personal choice. The concept alone has little to do with reality, proof or fact. It can, but it does not have to. It is a trust based system, not necessarily a fact based or reason based one. You can trust a person, idea or thing, for any reason (or absence thereof) or fact whatsoever.
Some people wrongly believe that faith is a concept of religious origin alone.
Faith can be the choice we make when facts are not available:
Like when we are about to decide between A and B and we believe both choices are good in their own way, but we are unable to choose both. In such cases, faith comes in. We decide to trust one choice to be the better one over the other or others, and we go for it.
I have faith when I play the lotto. I know the odds are against me. I know the odds of it being a waste of money are huge. But I play. Even though I rationalize the act of buying a ticket as the price for the excitement before losing, faith in winning is a big part of it all as well.
Religious faith is no different. It just means that the same faith is put into what some religion / belief is claiming to be true with a lot of trust and confidence, wherever those claims may be coming from.
Faith is also a personal choice. The concept alone has little to do with reality, proof or fact. It can, but it does not have to. It is a trust based system, not necessarily a fact based or reason based one. You can trust a person, idea or thing, for any reason (or absence thereof) or fact whatsoever.
Some people wrongly believe that faith is a concept of religious origin alone.
Faith can be the choice we make when facts are not available:
Like when we are about to decide between A and B and we believe both choices are good in their own way, but we are unable to choose both. In such cases, faith comes in. We decide to trust one choice to be the better one over the other or others, and we go for it.
I have faith when I play the lotto. I know the odds are against me. I know the odds of it being a waste of money are huge. But I play. Even though I rationalize the act of buying a ticket as the price for the excitement before losing, faith in winning is a big part of it all as well.
Religious faith is no different. It just means that the same faith is put into what some religion / belief is claiming to be true with a lot of trust and confidence, wherever those claims may be coming from.
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