Faith

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Faith can refer to a religion, or to belief in one or more deities. It has two general implications which can be implied either exclusively or mutually:

• To trust:
  • To commit oneself to act based on self experience to warrant belief, but without absolute proof. Mere belief on the basis of evidence is not faith. To have faith involves an act of will. For example, many people saw Blondin walk across the gorge below Niagara Falls on a tightrope, and believed (on the basis of the evidence of their own eyes) that he was capable of carrying a man on his back safely across. But only his manager Harry Colcord had enough faith to allow himself to be carried.
  • Believing a certain variable will act or has the potential to act a specific way despite the potential influence and probability of known or unknown change.
    • To have faith that one's spouse promise or commitment.
    • To have faith that the world will someday be peaceful.
    • To have faith that a person will pay you back.
    • To have faith that you will be alright despite adversity.
    • To have faith in one's full dependence on the will of supernatural forces or deities.
• A means to obtain something.
  • To have faith in a process. (Faith in the Law)
  • To have faith in a source or resource. (Faith your pay check or employment)
  • To have faith in a method to obtain. (work hard, lie, cheat, buy, trade, be attractive, etc.)
  • To have faith in the pathway to a specific desire. (The fastest way to a man's heart is his stomach.)
    • Faith is the development of pathways through doubt. With certain resistances to life, wishing to obtain more life force cause people to develop means and methods to overcome the resistance. For example: With the development of farming and grocery stores the ability to get necessary food has became easier, takes less time and allows for more living. Everyone still has to eat, but the means of obtainment has shifted. Our forefathers used to pray to God for a good crop, as that was part of their faith. Many farmers still do that, but now many pray that the paycheck hits the bank before the cable bill.
    • When something is wanted and there stands doubt between your current condition of need and the thing desired, systems of faith are employed. A person will first work existing pathways already established by faith. If they fail, they will seek to develop other pathways by faith, not knowing for sure if the path they pursue will provide the object they seek.
    • The desire for things dominates the application of faith. Many of those actively applying faith to specific pathways seek less tangible things, such as love, peace, harmony, or even eternal life. Faith is an individual path. Just because it worked for one person, doesn't mean it will work for another. Just because A person went to their place of employment and got the paycheck with their name on doesn't mean that their brother can do the same. He has to establish his own means to obtain things.

In either case, faith is based upon the interpretation of the intangible or the physically tangible. It is primarily associated with religion in modern times.

According to the Bible, "faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Hebrews 11:1, New International Version).

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