Defining "faith"
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We have touched upon several moral and religious topics here and the use of the word "faith" has come up more than once.I have always been a student of the question "why do people believe what the believe".What does FAITH mean to you??How do you aquire FAITH in something.. religious or otherwise.Buckle your seat belts.I am sure this one will have many opposing views.
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There's not just "what faith means to you", dummy. There is what the word "faith" is used in common discourse to communicate, which each 'you' participates in, but certainly have little to do with defining, except subjectively.
Common use distinguishs two broad contexts: secular and religious. The generic notion is a mental attitude that affirms something without proof or, perhaps, evidence, to the point of acting on it. Most things done in life are predicated on assumptions taken on faith. Ex.: secular: faith in the Stock Market; Ex.: religious, faith in God (or synonyms for the Completing Totality) The separation of church and state is designerd to keep the two uses officially distinct. G.W. Bush hath sinned mightily in introducing the phrase "faith based initiative" and, in general, inflicting his personal maleficent religious will on America.
In religious uses of "faith", there is a psychic polarity between cognitive (thought) and connative (feeling) affirmation. This corresponds roughly to the distinction between belief, completed by propositions (doctrine); and trust, completed by total commitment. Catholicism mainly follows propositional faith (cf, Aquinas), Protestants speak more of conversion, commitment, and re-birth (John 3.16).
Two major classic sources defining Christian faith are Galatians 2.16, and Hebrews 11:1-3: The Faith by grace is spoken of as something palbasble, a 'substance' of what is Hoped For; constituting an 'e'vidence' for what is unseen. It, this palbable substance of the Unseen Hoped for, is the power by which the heroes of the Old Testament gave good testimony, and of what was to come. This power was born as the fruit of Mary's womb, culminating and completing the priestly line of Judaic law. Hebrews 7-8 emphatically links the paternal origin of the power that became Christ to the God of the Sumerian (not: semitic) Melchisidek priests of most, most ancient (Jeru-)Salem. (YHWH El OHIM - God most High)
The central tenant of Christian faith is that Jesus Christ fulfilled and completed what the Old Testament was about. Whatever else may be disagreed about, this is its Rock of Gibralter. If you have faith in what the Old Testament brought on earth, you have faith in Christ as its fulfillment and completion. Faith in observance of law, and sacrifice, is done away with.
Any who deny this is the Christian essence, or, like this Roman Catholic Pope, do not consistently carry through with its implications that the law (Torah) has been terminated as a path of salvation, are not children of the Christian faith
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We have touched upon several moral and religious topics here and the use of the word "faith" has come up more than once.I have always been a student of the question "why do people believe what the believe".What does FAITH mean to you??How do you aquire FAITH in something.. religious or otherwise.Buckle your seat belts.I am sure this one will have many opposing views.
Posted by Search4Truth
There's not just "what faith means to you", dummy. There is what the word "faith" is used in common discourse to communicate, which each 'you' participates in, but certainly have little to do with defining, except subjectively.
Common use distinguishs two broad contexts: secular and religious. The generic notion is a mental attitude that affirms something without proof or, perhaps, evidence, to the point of acting on it. Most things done in life are predicated on assumptions taken on faith. Ex.: secular: faith in the Stock Market; Ex.: religious, faith in God (or synonyms for the Completing Totality) The separation of church and state is designerd to keep the two uses officially distinct. G.W. Bush hath sinned mightily in introducing the phrase "faith based initiative" and, in general, inflicting his personal maleficent religious will on America.
In religious uses of "faith", there is a psychic polarity between cognitive (thought) and connative (feeling) affirmation. This corresponds roughly to the distinction between belief, completed by propositions (doctrine); and trust, completed by total commitment. Catholicism mainly follows propositional faith (cf, Aquinas), Protestants speak more of conversion, commitment, and re-birth (John 3.16).
Two major classic sources defining Christian faith are Galatians 2.16, and Hebrews 11:1-3: The Faith by grace is spoken of as something palbasble, a 'substance' of what is Hoped For; constituting an 'e'vidence' for what is unseen. It, this palbable substance of the Unseen Hoped for, is the power by which the heroes of the Old Testament gave good testimony, and of what was to come. This power was born as the fruit of Mary's womb, culminating and completing the priestly line of Judaic law. Hebrews 7-8 emphatically links the paternal origin of the power that became Christ to the God of the Sumerian (not: semitic) Melchisidek priests of most, most ancient (Jeru-)Salem. (YHWH El OHIM - God most High)
The central tenant of Christian faith is that Jesus Christ fulfilled and completed what the Old Testament was about. Whatever else may be disagreed about, this is its Rock of Gibralter. If you have faith in what the Old Testament brought on earth, you have faith in Christ as its fulfillment and completion. Faith in observance of law, and sacrifice, is done away with.
Any who deny this is the Christian essence, or, like this Roman Catholic Pope, do not consistently carry through with its implications that the law (Torah) has been terminated as a path of salvation, are not children of the Christian faith
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