| Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| How does Faith relate to the world in which we live? |
Before starting to answer this question, I sat and wondered; what is faith? How do we define what faith is? If faith is believing something, what is belief?
To start out, many people can relate faith into their religion. In the community where I live, Christianity is the big religion, and faith is a word that I hear very often. I am not a 100% pure believer of Christ and I am also not sure whether I have a clear idea about myself and about the religion Christianity. Although the Christian faith is not based purely on evidence, I do know by many years in TCIS that Ch ristian faith is definately supported by evidence. This shows that "faith" is just not something where you give up your body and heart to something you believe in, or exterminating reasoning overwhelmed by emotion. Faith, in fact, is a carefully calculated belief in my point of view.
So what does faith have to do in the world in which we live right now? Many people these days neglect religion or faith, and live up to materialistic standards of life. If we look more carefully, however, many world issues today or from history are heavily based on faith. Go to CNN.com or turn on the news and what do you see? Wars, riots, and other controversial issues happening in the middle east these days are mostly based on Faith. Their faith in muslim, buddhism, or whatever they have faith seem to cause controversy over the diverse religious groups in the middle east. Also, in history, we see numerous events that were based on faith also. The holy crusades, the battle for Jerusalem, the Nazi faith in their supremacy, and all sorts of other historical events are based on faith.
In the world we live in, faith represents one's view of the world, and people should know how to respect that view. Without consideration of the variety of faiths in this world, the constant battle for which belief is better will never end. Wrapping everything up, I think "faith," back in history, the present, and in the future would be a crucial factor of life helping one to gain purpose in life. |
posted by Justin An @ 7:28 AM  |
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You said that we should accept other Faiths as well. However, In Christianity it states God or not, everything else is wrong. Do you think in this case Christians should respect other faiths too? If they do it would destroy their own belief as well..
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Don't we apply faith in our everyday lives as well? I'm not very fluent in the English language, so I can't be very sure, but I thought that faith would mean putting trust in other people. It's not impossible that everyone in the world might be your enemy, and that you should be suspicious of what even our friends do for us. However, because we have trust- in other words, faith- in them, we do not suspect them, and thus feel awful if we are ever betrayed.
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Justin - your post shows deep contemplation of this concept. You write clearly and exude maturity in your writing style. Mrs.Mc.
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