My adventures: Worth Christian Forum

[Jenny A]

I don't think of belief and faith as the same thing. Belief means you think something is true. Faith means you believe it is true despite the lack of evidence or even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Knowledge is belief for which you have overwhelming evidence.

I have to disagree. Faith as commonly used outside of a religion is belief with weak evidence or at least a reasonable belief even without supporting evidence. I have faith that when I drive somewhere that I will not be killed by some asshole driving the wrong way. True, it happens sometimes, but there's plenty of evidence that people keep to their own side of the road. I have faith that my wife's not cheating on me. No hard evidence, but no activity/behavior to indicate something might me going on either.

Now, blind faith, or religious faith, as I prefer to call it. That's another matter and what the religious are usually referring to when they use the word faith. This is a belief that's held without, or in the face of contrary, evidence. It's also pure bullshit.

Ah as in I have faith in humanity, or my children, or my husband, or our government. Yeah that is a common usage. But I don't think that's what Christians mean by faith in God.