Faith and achievement

[bennyboy]

I got to your definition and stopped. As soon as you can redefine something, we are no longer talking about the same thing. I know you want me to read to the end, but what's the point?

I'm not redefining it.  It's well within the parameters of the word "faith."  When a word has more than one meaning, or an ambiguous meaning, you have to say what you mean when you use it.

And what's this "we" stuff?  I'm talking about faith.  You aren't doing anything except joining my thread to say there's no point joining my thread.

But to answer your question: I think there's a convergence between my definition of faith and the more Christian religious one. I don't think it's a cultural accident that many great athletes are seen making the cross sign, for example. I think religious faith can suspend all the psychological impediments to achievement-- in other words, it has a great practical utility. Personally, I prefer to have faith in my great brain than in Jebus, but in the end, the real joy is in the results much more than the psychological method used to get them.