Why would you need faith if you had no doubt?Is it sorta like adreineline?
60I think some would argue that you have no doubt BECAUSE you have faith. As far as adrenaline goes, adrenaline often kicks in during life and death situations. It gives a person superhuman strength and speed in an effort to survive or to save someone else. The affects of the adrenaline often mask feelings of fear because there's no room for feelings of fear in a flight or fight situation, but that does not mean that the fear is not there. Likewise, just because you have faith does not necessarily mean that you cannot have doubt, the doubt is simply masked or overpowered by the faith.
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What confuses me about faith is that besides religion, what in society uses it?
Scientists don't meet every Tuesday and chant that gravity exists because they are confident through logic that it does.
I believe that it isn't adrenaline that they create by having faith rather faith creates an absence of fear. A fear that nothing exists after death, a fear that their beliefs are wrong or a fear that not having faith will result in suffering an eternity of hell.
Just my 2c.
Here is my idea of faith: faith=trust. If you have faith in God, you trust that God exists. If you have faith in your spouse's fidelity, you trust your spouse to not cheat on you. Scientists have faith that they won't float off into space at any given moment because they trust that their logic of gravity is correct, and so on and so forth. By this definition it is impossible to not have any doubt. You always doubt something. And if you want to take it back to the God issue, then ponder this: if you have faith in God then you doubt that there is not one; if you don't have faith in God you do doubt that there is one out there. "There isn't a God? I doubt that", "There is a God? I doubt that".
Well, I would say that scientist have a lot of faith, everytime they make a hypothosis, everytime they are looking for a certain result, and everytime they need someone to fund their idea. I think it takes a bit of faith.
interesting word play Miss B.
the definition of faith : the hope/beleif in things unseen
every christian has doubts. everyone that beleives in something has doubt somethímes. i beleive in God even though I have doubt alot of times. ive seen miricals hapen and Ive seen a prophet saying things about people that they didnt know about people and I still have doubt sometimes you just have to have faith and faith also means risk
sandra rinck 4 years ago
Or some could argue that I have have no doubts, so what would be the purpose of faith?
So I guess the next question would be, how do you define faith?
Or someone could argue that I have no faith because I have no doubt.
And my sentiments exactly about the adrenieline. It causes you to react, usually in effect to fear, or elation. So what does that say about life and faith?