Imagination by standard definition is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. In bases, imagination is the ability to vision (envision) something that you haven’t experienced of seen happen. As a designer, I often rely on my imagination to create new clothing ideas from flat fabric. Looking at the fabric, I then will (will then) see a vision of how the fabric will end as I manipulate it into become a shirt, pans, skirt or dress. Additionally, being a history buff, it takes a great deal of imagination to recreate ancient civilizations and kingdoms from books and articles I (have) read. I wasn’t present during this time period, so, again I rely on (my) imagination to
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However, most people take imagination to literally mean day dreaming of fancy or unreal events or places. But as we relate imagination to religion this isn’t the case.
A healthy level of imagination is needed in the life of faith believers. As the Christian belief system is built upon story and events that happened thousands of years ago, it takes imagination to recreate the stories that you have not witnessed or experienced. The Bible suggests that we should have a sanctified or clean imagination, and that we should avoid (and avoid) mischief imagination. For many of the events in the Bible it’s easy to image (imagine) the event, though we didn’t witness the actual event, we have witness similar events such as war. However, there are some events that takes (take) a deeper level of faith and imagination to believe, such as the birth of Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, Jesus was born of a virgin mother. The idea of a virgin women being pregnant is …show more content…
For many people, especially nonreligious people, the arbiter of truth is experience—only what I have perceived and can perceive with my senses can be trusted. Imagination offers a broader perspective on truth. If imagination is the capacity to visualize, to be confident in or hopeful of a reality that contradicts our experience, then it refuses to let our senses determine the limits of what is possible. This is why faith is an act of the imagination. Faith requires us to envision and inhabit a world that we cannot perceive with our senses—a world where an invisible God lovingly maintains his creation, where the Son of God became a human child, died on a cross to save sinners, and is seated at the right hand of God in
However, most people take imagination to literally mean day dreaming of fancy or unreal events or places. But as we relate imagination to religion this isn’t the case.
A healthy level of imagination is needed in the life of faith believers. As the Christian belief system is built upon story and events that happened thousands of years ago, it takes imagination to recreate the stories that you have not witnessed or experienced. The Bible suggests that we should have a sanctified or clean imagination, and that we should avoid (and avoid) mischief imagination. For many of the events in the Bible it’s easy to image (imagine) the event, though we didn’t witness the actual event, we have witness similar events such as war. However, there are some events that takes (take) a deeper level of faith and imagination to believe, such as the birth of Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, Jesus was born of a virgin mother. The idea of a virgin women being pregnant is …show more content…
For many people, especially nonreligious people, the arbiter of truth is experience—only what I have perceived and can perceive with my senses can be trusted. Imagination offers a broader perspective on truth. If imagination is the capacity to visualize, to be confident in or hopeful of a reality that contradicts our experience, then it refuses to let our senses determine the limits of what is possible. This is why faith is an act of the imagination. Faith requires us to envision and inhabit a world that we cannot perceive with our senses—a world where an invisible God lovingly maintains his creation, where the Son of God became a human child, died on a cross to save sinners, and is seated at the right hand of God in