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.
Season 17, Episode 2 - #CloserToTruth
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@bishop1735 2 года назад

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

@michaelpocrnich953 Год назад

Faith is the answer we give when we don't have a good reason.

@JeffChen285 4 года назад

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."

@deckiedeckie 2 года назад

Faith is the belief even in the absence of evidence!

@the_infinity_channel 2 года назад

I think this man should be on national geography

@catherinemoore9534 3 года назад

Emotions exist : falling in love exists. Rationality cannot explaîn everything.

@realistic.optimist 3 года назад

Amen, some things are beyond logic.

@Steammmwo Год назад

@@realistic.optimist love both of you guys

@GeoCoppens 4 года назад

Further from Truth with faith!!!

@joealtieri758 3 года назад

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🥰💝

@catherinemoore9534 3 года назад

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.

@vhawk1951kl 2 года назад

All euphemisms are lies. Human being do not "pass away" they*die*- or are (themselves) destroyed for ever

@johns294 4 года назад

Good job on this video. I’m still searching myself. It’s a very haunting proposition indeed.

@zgobermn6895 4 года назад

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.

@youngman44 Год назад

This is such a great program.

@benwrong6855 3 года назад

love your banter Robert

@jhonjairoherrera8059 Год назад

Minute 12:50 Mr. Kuhn, touché. Loved that comment.

@linasmarcinkevicius 4 года назад

Thank you! :)

@tedgrant2 Год назад

I have faith that God is happy with everything he created.

@fatimaa9180 4 года назад

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👍

@chereeschuelka6116 2 года назад

Amen

@cmvamerica9011 2 года назад

Good explanation.

@doomedtolinger2213 4 года назад

I believe O Lord; please help me in my unbelief.

@hooliogoolio4446 4 года назад

this channel is gonna be huge

@Priyansh_Alex_Daniel 4 года назад

Very very very very nice videos you make keep it up.

@roblovestar9159 3 года назад

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.

@rosch99 3 года назад

That could be true, I believe.

@realistic.optimist 3 года назад

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.

@blindlemon9 2 года назад

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.

@vhawk1951kl 2 года назад

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"?

@johnmcwade1 2 года назад

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.

@muslaw1 4 года назад

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.

@avisjohnson35 26 дней назад

I love what you wrote and Belief and faith are 2 different thanks.I love the way you explained it

@AlmostEthical Год назад

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.

@GroovismOrg 4 года назад

Faith we have in the proven powers of music!! Music's been proven on many levels as spiritually connected!!!

@tedgrant2 Год назад

God can do anything, right ? So he must be happy !

@damiendaviswatchmanofephra2660 3 года назад

It's not believing in in, it is having the faith of Jesus, his faith.

@commonsense1103 4 года назад

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.

@patmoran5339 4 года назад

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.

@commonsense1103 4 года назад

@@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.

@rosch99 3 года назад

@@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.

@patmoran5339 3 года назад

@@rosch99And the evidence is?

@rosch99 3 года назад

@@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.

@onestepaway3232 3 года назад

Faith is trusting and depending on God through water and fire built on a relationship. Shalom

@redpillpusher 3 года назад

LOL ...I put my faith in the Last Airbender he has power of all the elements.

@cmvamerica9011 2 года назад

I have faith that an almighty knows what to do.

@bobs4429 3 года назад

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.

@bobs4429 2 года назад

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.

@lucianmaximus4741 4 года назад

Kudos -- 444 Gematria -- 🗽

@lightworker4512 3 года назад

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.

@benridge6570 2 года назад

God is speaking to us, but are we listening. Faith comes by hearing, and by are awareness.

@KeneOliver 4 года назад

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.

@anthonymorford8804 4 года назад

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.

@soubhikmukherjee6871 3 года назад

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.

@nightoftheworld 2 года назад

Totally, absolute truth is that universal crack which opens up every particular position

@Teddy143Fresa 2 года назад

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.

@Gjermund-Sivertsen 3 года назад

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?

@ezioberolo2936 3 года назад

Faith is at the edge or limit of our knowledge and understanding

@alcazarrealty 4 года назад

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.

@rosch99 3 года назад

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.

@jeffmckinnon5842 3 года назад

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.

@MillennialRabbi 3 года назад

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

@world-of-susan. 3 года назад

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’.

@rosch99 3 года назад

@@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.

@rafaelireneo1446 2 года назад

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.

@khumo54 2 года назад

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.

@quentinkumba6746 3 года назад

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.

@fidenful 2 года назад

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.

@wlloyd9837 2 года назад

Ganssle's hands are casting spells on me

@Joxxol 4 года назад

16:58 Faith that his son will get better, even though he doesn't believe it, sounds more like hope that faith, strictly speaking.

@nathandeleau5100 2 года назад

I agree, because faith is speaking out of a thing as if its already in existance even though its not yet in existance.

@arthurwieczorek4894 2 года назад

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.'

@usmanusman-cl1nc 4 года назад

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..

@andrebrown8969 4 года назад

I have grow more practical as I get older and wiser (not always the case) so faith does not mean that much to me.

@Gooblehusain 3 года назад

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.

@Daysdontexist 4 года назад

One must be very particular about telling the truth, through truth one can realize God. ~ shri ramakrishna

@omy444 4 года назад

Robert made a joke!! : D

@pg9112471 4 года назад

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?

@edherwick6995 4 года назад

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........

@cmvamerica9011 2 года назад

It’s more like; I see the world and I infer God.

@yak55x 3 года назад

Faith is : You start with a conclusion and only accept evidence and feelings that agree with that conclusion. Also known as lying to yourself.

@rosch99 3 года назад

Well put!

@RustedFaith 3 года назад

@@rosch99 Very wrong, Faith without reasoning / rational is nothing but a Blind Faith.

@rosch99 3 года назад

@@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.

@rosch99 3 года назад

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.

@blindlemon9 2 года назад

@@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.

@paulweston2267 3 года назад

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.

@KSayar Год назад

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.

@drea7295 10 месяцев назад

But why are you watching this then ?

@pauls2613 2 года назад

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 RU-vid channel!!

@revolveperformance Год назад

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.

@anthonymorford8804 4 года назад

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.

@brandonwilkinson 4 года назад

Anthony Morford we have an imperfect perception of perfection due to the imperfection of our perception.

@nelsoncamachotirado6967 4 года назад

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.

@arthurwieczorek4894 2 года назад

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.

@jeffrhonda 6 месяцев назад

Faith in reality is better than

@josy26 2 года назад

You do have faith, there is something which you believe which has no grounds for believing it, your first axiom

@bombnom 4 года назад

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.

@patmoran5339 4 года назад

I believe it was Mark Twain who said (maybe paraphrased) "Faith is all those things you know that just ain't so."

@bombnom 4 года назад

@@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

@patmoran5339 4 года назад

@@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.

@hddhesgghg3205 3 года назад

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)

@anikettripathi7991 2 года назад

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.

@anilshah7528 Год назад

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.

@vincentzevecke4578 Месяц назад

Like this.s lot

@mikechartowich1482 Год назад

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.

@danielpaulson8838 3 года назад

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.

@robandrews4815 6 месяцев назад

Probably why a lot of new agers use psychedelic drugs.

@ruskinyruskiny1611 2 года назад

Faith, hope and charity and the greatest of these is Charity. See Gandhi and MLK for details. ❤

@marcusanthony488 2 года назад

Robert: What would count as an answer? Do you have some idea what it would look like?

@deckiedeckie 2 года назад

How can it be a relation between Science and Religion?......How can a person be a science and religion professor?

@alistairwatt8767 2 года назад

yea it seems strange. Science and religion are like polar opposites.

@johnedelmann6711 Год назад

The man Robert is speaking with here - 5:31 - starts to use NLP on him to persuade him.

@alemartinezrojas5285 4 года назад

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.

@lewsheen7514 4 года назад

"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?

@daithiocinnsealach3173 4 года назад

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.

@jordancox8294 4 года назад

Faith is trust in what you already know to be true.

@Wardoon 4 года назад

Falsehoods can be motivating and hope-giving but that don't make them good.

@Carlos-fl6ch 3 года назад

@@jordancox8294 Faith is pretending to know things.for sure that you cannot possibly.know.

@redpillpusher 3 года назад

@@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?

@melissaflanary7 4 года назад

I know that people believe that they can trust God and he has faith they will

@melissaflanary7 4 года назад

Trust me

@justincase5948 4 года назад

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? ;)

@fjg2896 4 года назад

And faith will lead you "closer to truth"? Good luck with that.

@Adeptus_Mechanicus 4 года назад

That's not what they are saying.

@TheEtAdmirer 4 года назад

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.

@Daysdontexist 4 года назад

@@iainbozfelt Unseasonably a narrow minded remark btw.

@TheEtAdmirer 4 года назад

@@Speykious Yeah, I agree thank you.

@Carlos-fl6ch 3 года назад

@@iainbozfelt yes a true expression of Jezus via teachings and you think you're a true Christian.

@SecretEyeSpot 3 года назад

Are all existent objects empirical? The real important question is: what fact about nature indicates that we should the consider the contrary?

@benwitt6902 4 года назад

Faith is trusting the oncoming truck will stay in it's lane.

@TheEtAdmirer 4 года назад

The day man put's his faith in man, Will be the day all prayers will be heard.

@BradHolkesvig 4 года назад

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.

@patmoran5339 4 года назад

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.

@doring4579 Год назад

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@brendaelder3734 2 года назад

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?

@alikarimi-langroodi5402 2 года назад

Faith works by belief.

@samsonsupaka5911 Год назад

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.

@burningbush2322 4 года назад

What if one defined God as Truth. Can you have faith in Truth?

@TomJudson 2 года назад

If something is demonstrably and verifiably true faith doesn’t enter the equation.

@ivarslinis9273 4 года назад

I do not believe that faith can be voluntary. (re: around 18 min)

@jeffmckinnon5842 3 года назад

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?

@jamesruscheinski8602 3 года назад

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.

@redpillpusher 3 года назад

would you like some dressing with that word salad.

@afriyielewis8683 4 года назад

Faith simply means putting yourself in invisible vehicles in other words internal vehicles to the place of the one that provide .

@patmoran5339 4 года назад

Is this some kind of secret code?

@jjharvathh 3 года назад

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.

@liaqatkhan49 4 года назад

Without faith ..life is randomly meaningless.

@redpillpusher 3 года назад

faith is arbitrary and meaningless.

@sahelanthropusbrensis 4 года назад

Centuries in the future, our descendants are going to be at some distant world, looking into an alien night sky, and making the same questions.

@CrystalTwinStar 3 года назад

What if God IS tangible? Like...it's just a word to describe all of existence

@cmvamerica9011 2 года назад

Beliefs are just concretized assumptions.

@Elaphe472 3 года назад

I can imagine the father of a hundred kids living in a big house as the guy spends his time hiding under the bed, listening to all the conmotion.

@Steammmwo Год назад

I wouldn’t necessarily say hiding if God is helping out his believers and blessing them daily

@cvsree 4 года назад

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