Bahá'í Faith

Forming the shape and structure of society, religion is a fundamental aspect in any culture. It is religion that you look towards for spiritual advice when all else fails, especially in a time of dire circumstances. Mircea Eliade noted this concept of religion, a sacred model of life orientation, in The Sacred and Profane. Theorizing the origins of religion, Eliade makes connections to religious man and the ordered existence of religious man’s universe(the cosmos). Eliade’s ideas coincide with…

Faith can be defined as believing in something without any proof. Is it logical that humans believe in accepting things without any evidence it exists? That appears to be a vital attribute to religion because there’s no stone cold proof in crediting its existence. So why is it that people believe in God? Most would say it’s evident it benefits them in their afterlife and their building of moral character. However, is it really true that being religious makes somebody a moral person, or is it…

Jason Bock doesn't know what he believes anymore, spiritually speaking. A self-described agnostic-going-on-atheist, he does know that he doesn't buy into his parents' Catholicism. When the local bully lays him out with a punch, Jason gets a literal new perspective on the town's water tower—the tallest structure in the area, it has a presence. Not to mention a belly full of the stuff-of-life: water. He figures that worshiping the town water tower is as arbitrary as any other god or religion, so…

In modern society, science, logic, and reason live side-by-side with religious faith. People today have come to terms with scientific facts and what their religion tells them. But was the divide between scientific thinking and blind faith always so clear? Thousands of years ago, the darkness of the Middle Ages in Europe gave light to an age of knowledge and enlightenment, when faith took the backseat to scientific and logical thinking. This new age didn’t just take place immediately, however.…

Faith Faith, a good word to describe people’s believe. Christian can be a faith of people. When people get faith then they get the rule of life. People can control himself better when they got a believe or faith. Another definition is rely. People trust and depends on another. Faith is an important word in the ancient stories. In King Arthur age faith is a key to win. Faith also represent honor and loyalty. If a knight do not got a faith so he is not a good and honorable knight. If a…

Faith, from the Miriam Webster dictionary is defined as, “A strong belief or trust in something.” And Biblically, which is stated in Hebrews 11:1, faith is described as the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. In the movie The Wizard of Oz we are witness to a lot of examples of faith. In the movie, the main character, Dorothy, wishes she could just leave Kansas and experience new and exciting things. Before she’s going to leave, she visits a professor in her town…

Anthropomorphism and Incredulity in Life of Pi and Yann Martel’s the theme of poetic faith is used to show how an individual uses this idea to transcend and revise what they know in order to survive uncertainty. Poetic faith is a constant and continual theme and throughout the book and essay and it is shown through the use of religion, literature and lastly the blurred lines between animal and human tendencies. Poetic faith easily shows the reasoning of Pi’s actions as well the reasoning of…

Faith is something that I learned from my own life lessons. Faith to me means many things. The first thing that comes to mind when I remind myself of faith when i’m feeling down, is going to church. I learned to have faith in God by how my parents taught me, but the real lesson I have is from teaching myself. I learned from my mistakes. God has brought me down sometimes in order to bring me up. There are many times in life that I thought I should give up and give in. I reached out the most when…

if I can classify myself into two different approaches, but after reading it seems to me that you can have qualities of each. As I stated earlier, I think the stronger approach to my life is the Relationship-Factor Approach. This approach describes the essence of who I am and how I think. It keeps up with the structures of how I was taught concerning my religious beliefs. I found it very ironic that Horton mentioned that Methodists (along with a few other denominations) are more affiliated with…

When the Census results are released later this year they’ll demonstrate that more than a third of Australians are now non-religious. Jumping from 23% in the 2011 Census to as high as 38% (which was the number recorded in a 2016 Ipsos poll), the inexorable march towards a non-believing majority will then be undeniable. Evidently, neither school chaplaincy and the increasingly evangelical Bible classes in state schools, are arresting the freefall in Christian beliefs. Soon classes in Secular…