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Originally Posted by classicman
HM - you seem to have such a negative opinion of the word. It surprises me.
Here, from wiki:
"Believing a certain variable will act or has the potential to act a specific way despite the potential influence and probability of known or unknown change.
* To have faith that one's spouse will keep a promise or commitment.
* To have faith that the world will someday be peaceful.
* To have faith that a person will pay you back.
* To have faith that you will be okay despite adversity.
* To have faith in one's full dependence on the will of supernatural forces or deities."
Within certain contexts faith is a great thing - applied or used inappropriately it can be potentially very bad.
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If your wife has been true in the past, just like a ball falls to the ground gives you president for "faith" that gravity will be there when you need it, is evidence that your belief that she may continue that behavior is not unfounded. Not faith in the true sense. Also, if you ask most rational people they will tell you it is not a pure, knowable, issue. They know their spouse could cheat, but is more likely not to if they both work toward the best marriage... not faith.
I don't know anyone that thinks the world will be completely peaceful. Nor do I know two people that can agree on the same definition on peaceful. Yeah, faith and illogical to buy.
If they have paid you back in the past, not faith, if you have any evidence of their character, not faith.
Ok despite adversity... I don't even know what this means.
The last one is faith and there is no rational reason to buy anything supernatural, to date. Having faith in them is neither good or bad, it does nothing because there is nothing there to answer your faith that we know of and no evidence that it does anything at all. No one has been healed or helped in any way. Waste of energy.