Question about "faith"

[GUBU]

Your definition is wrong.  Faith is simply the unjustified belief in a god for which you have no evidence.  As an atheist, I cannot have faith.

That's the atheist strawman definition lol. Within Christianity faith is synonyms with trust.

Believing a lie doesn't make it true. Your faith remains an unjustified belief in something without evidence.

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You can trust in God with all your might, but that doesn't confirm his existence or make him real.

Exactly; that's why it's a strawman when atheists act like it does. That's not how we use faith in Christianity.

You're wrong there. The only strawmanning being done here is by you. You are mangling the arguments of others to make them into easily defeated straw men and then claiming we are strawmanning you. Everything you post here bears out my initial observation on faith.


In fact it goes further, your previous post which takled about Jesus walking on water shows that not alone have you an unjustified belief but that you are unwilling to examine and test your belief. Most of the 'miracles' in the bible are easily debunked myths used to big up first the Jews beyond thier real existence as a small and insignificant tribe at the desert edge of the fertile crescent civilisations and latterly to big up the nythixal Jesus so that he could stand up to the myriad of "miracle workers" running around the hellenic world of the Early Roman Empire.

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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.

You trust your significant other (I use this because love isn't binary) because over a period of time they have demonstrated that they can be trusted. You cannot say the same thing about god.