8) What makes faith so important?
Faith is not somthing you can take out of your life completely. What defines faith? Faith is what you trust, what you believe in, and what you hold on to be true. Observe people around us. Looking at every choice they make, looking at their life style, where is an area where faith does not come into picture? It just maybe that faith is not just a part of your life, but your life itself.
Faith is important because it shapes your life style. How you eat, how you live, why you eat and why you live. As for me, everything I do relates up to God because I have faith in him. Some cultures have different faiths than others, for example, the Sawi people believed in different things than Don Richardson's beliefs. Faith may become a major factor in distinguishing differences between people, or a mutual wall between cultures. Faith is somthing that you practice everyday. This is why accepting new faith if hard. Because you have lived your life beliving in something, it is hard to change the belief system completely and in a quick second. I believe that in order to believe in one faith completely, you have to let go of other beliefs. Especially in Christianity, where killing, stealing or idolizing is prohibited, how would anyone follow through christian beliefs without letting go of secular practices? As hard as a complete transformation is, it is more beautiful and radient once it is through the stage of complete metamorphosis. Why do we need to change? And to what extent do we need to change ? The answer to these questions will also depend on your faith. This is why what type of faith you have is crucial, because it determines your understanding and perspective of seeing everything. Faith is an apspect which will guide you in life, shape your identity, and ultimately determine what will become of you after you are dead. How we live out life will be the reflection of faith that you have.
Live or die. As for me, i would rather have no faith than have belief in somthing other than christianity. But as for the world? Live, or die?
2 comments:
Hey Grace =) this is a great post! I agree with your statement that everyone has faith. I really like the way how you explained that faith isn’t just a religious thing but it’s an actual part of our daily lives. We eat food that FDA proved it be safe. But do we know that FDA actually did all the tests to make sure the products are edible and won’t make us sick? If we are being diehard, objective paranoids, then how can we be sure that a food product is safe without seeing the test results with our naked eyes at the scene? We have faith that this big organization, FDA, won’t lie to us and thusly we eat the food.
I think that a lot of people are obsessed in being objective in order to prove that they are correct and others are wrong. I won’t make any comments regarding faith and Christianity, but I think that the modern civilization is slowing starting to lose something called ‘faith’ and becoming a bunch of stubborn cowards. They are scared at the fact that they don’t know everything and they want to hide and isolate themselves by trying not to have faith in anything so that they wouldn’t get hurt when they are told that they don’t know everything.
As a believer of Jesus Christ’s teachings, I also would rather have no faith than have belief in something other than Christianity. But I don’t know about the world. Maybe they’ll continue to be themselves as they are now and God will punish them when the Judgment Day comes.
Grace and Brian, you have made excellent comments and I am delighted to see the insightful choices you are making in life. Mrs.Mc.
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