Why I Like Faith (a thread for believers to share their views in a peaceful setting) ( Archived) (13)

Faith is the glue that binds us all together. Faith is the divine providence of seeking the good in all, and the moniker of Hope and Love.
Faith is the ability to reside in oneself completely through trust, and confidence.
Faith is often misrepresented to be the sole property of religion, but in essence religion is the means of those without faith to attempt to impose dominance over those who do believe.
Faith is a positive thing that does not seek to segregate others, but rather to gather them in harmony for their beliefs.

i agree with this whole-heartedly!!!

Faith is the divine providence of seeking the good in all, and the moniker of Hope and Love.

how the definition of faith has change from the old belief of its meaning

Ah
faith in the hands of those who "choose" to promote harmony and seek out the good in all things is truly a divine thing...however I am of the thought that faith is more and more being misplaced in materialistic gains and self gratification.

Ask true believers of any faith to describe the most important thing that drives their devotion, and they'll tell you it's not a thing at all but a sense—a feeling of a higher power far beyond us. Western religions can get a bit more doctrinaire: God has handed us laws and lore, and it's for us to learn and practice what they teach. For a hell-raising species like ours, however—with too much intelligence for our own good and too little discipline to know what to do with it—there have always been other, more utilitarian reasons to get religion. Chief among them is survival. Across the eons, the structure that religion provides our lives helps preserve both mind and body. But that, in turn, has raised a provocative question, one that's increasingly debated in the worlds of science and religion: Which came first, God or the need for God? In other words, did humans create religion from cues sent from above, or did evolution instill in us a sense of the divine so that we would gather into the communities essential to keeping the species going?

Just as a hurricane spins off tornadoes, this debate creates its own whirlwind of questions: If some people are more spiritual than others, is it nature or nurture that has made them so? If science has nothing to do with spirituality and it all flows from God, why do some people hear the divine word easily while others remain spiritually tone-deaf? Do such ivied-hall debates about environment, heredity and anthropology have any place at all in more exalted conversations about the nature of God?

Even among people who regard spiritual life as wishful hocus-pocus, there is a growing sense that humans may not be able to survive without it. It's hard enough getting by in a fang-and-claw world in which killing, thieving and cheating pay such rich dividends. It's harder still when there's no moral cop walking the beat to blow the whistle when things get out of control. Best to have a deity on hand to rein in our worst impulses, bring out our best and, not incidentally, give us a sense that there's someone awake in the cosmic house when the lights go out at night and we find ourselves wondering just why we're here in the first place. If a God or even several gods can do all that, fine. And if we sometimes misuse the idea of our gods—and millenniums of holy wars prove that we do—the benefits of being a spiritual species will surely outweigh the bloodshed.

~ Time Magazine

Yeah!!! What he said!!! All of it!!!!!

It appears that reading about faith does not incur opposition. More of that seems to adulterate the supposition that faith is incorrect.
By keeping the faith we each have individually we have managed to maintain coherence, with a very polite face of decorum.
Bless you all.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

The Bible 1st Corinthians 13

God is Love. All other arguments for or against faith cease to exist for me in that one simple definition. For without love, we are nothing.