Why is faith important?

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Man is flawed. You cannot trust what man thinks. You can only trust what the holy spirit tells you.

And how does the Holy Spirit tell you? Unless you are like the Son of Sam where you are hearing voices to tell you to do things, then you are really only hearing your own inclinations in your head. Or you are hearing the voices of people you trust in your head that are being reinterpreted.

Unless you really believe that you have a special power that is unique, which is to have spirits speak to you in your waking hours that tell you true things. With no one to validate that they are coming from anything but yourself, which is elevating yourself as God, and serving yourself, and considering your own thoughts as God's.

That isn't faith. But there is a psychological term for it.

Here let me help you: When one thinks about things important, one deduces and even gets answers sometimes.

Make sure you do this before walking across a busy street!

So you are saying that you trust your own judement and ability to reason to know what is true, and that truth is based on previous decisions of what is truth.

So what you are admitting is that the divine truth of the holy spirit is really your own judgement and reason expressing into this reality.

In short, you are the source of your own truth.