RE: Question about "faith"
September 16, 2020 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2020 at 1:39 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(September 16, 2020 at 1:03 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: And just what does, "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods" mean, anyway?
It means trust. For example, if your wife says she loves you, faith is trusting that she loves you even on days when your mood would have you believe otherwise.
Keep in mind that the entirety of the Christian walk is an interpersonal relationship with God. Many Christians struggle with unnecessary guilt, for example. Faith is trusting that God loves you, even when you mess up and can't love yourself, because he has promised as much.
Faith only applies within such interpersonal contexts. It is a trust relationship with God. It has nothing to do with evidence or knowledge or beliefs; at least not in any context outside of an interpersonal one.