Definition Of Faith

To me the term “faith” means to have complete trust in someone or something, when you have no reason to doubt. Faith is not a blank check; it does not mean that I will believe or trust someone or something blindly. There still must be some logical reasoning for me to have this belief. An example of this would be my faith in airplanes and their safety. When I get on an airplane, I do not worry that the plane will crash or that anything bad will happen. I completely trust that the plane was made well and maintained so that it will function properly. Whenever I travel on an airplane I do so with out any hesitation, and have faith that the airplane will get me to where I need to go safely. This is faith specifically because I believe that I will …show more content…
While Faith is having a belief or trust based on logic, fanaticism is having belief or trust but without any logical reasoning behind it. We can look at this from the example of a relationship between a boyfriend and a girlfriend. Let’s say that the girlfriend has a history of cheating on her partner, and the boyfriend has also caught the girlfriend cheating several times over the course of their relationship. Every time the girlfriend is caught cheating she promises to never cheat again, and the boyfriend believes her. This is what I would call fanaticism. The boyfriend believes that the girl will change her ways and suddenly become loyal, but there is no logical reason to believe that. Not only has she cheated in previous relationships, but she has also done so in the current one. The fact that she has cheated in the current relationship shows that the current relationship is no different than her previous ones, and she clearly does not feel any remorse, because if she did she would not cheat. The boyfriend is being fanatical in this situation because there is no logical reason for him to continue in the relationship with this woman or believe that she will change her behavior. Simply put, fanaticism is having a faith or belief without any logical …show more content…
In this chapter God tells Abraham to take his only son, Isaac, as a burnt offering. The purpose of this chapter was for God to test Abraham’s faith. Abraham followed God’s instruction and just before he was about to kill Isaac, God spoke to Abraham and told him not to do it because Abraham has now proved his faith in God. The question that arises from this is, should we consider Abraham as a model of faith. First of all, it must be considered that the bible is a very old piece of literature, it was written in a very different time period for the people of that time period. Taking the events from the bible and applying it to modern times is not very simple, thus there is not a yes or no answer to this question. Therefore, I believe that Abraham is indeed a model of faith, but only for the ancient Jew and not a present day